Thanks to more than $700,000 raised in an alumni-driven fundraising effort, the N.C. Governor's School will be held this summer at campuses in Winston-Salem and Raleigh.
The announcement, made Monday by state schools superintendent June Atkinson, follows months of private efforts to replace the state funding that had supported the schools, which bring honors students from across the state together for five weeks.
Students and the schools that nominate them will still face $500 tuition fees, which were put in place in 2010 to help offset program costs. But the program had faced elimination last year as the N.C. General Assembly cut funding for it.
Former students rallied to raise money, and Salem College, which hosts the Governor's School with Meredith College in Raleigh, promised $100,000 in donated room-and-board costs to keep the school going.
Some 275 students are expected at each campus this summer, the state superintendent's office said Monday.
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