PART VI.  GOVERNOR'S PROGRAM FOR GIFTED CHILDREN

§1989.1.  Legislative intent

The legislature hereby recognizes that the Governor's Program for Gifted Children has operated without explicit statutory mandate as an independent, residential summer program for certain elementary, middle, and high school students with the express purpose of providing a more challenging and enriching educational, artistic, and civic experience for the gifted children of this state and of developing such children to their full potential, while instilling in them an appreciation for higher virtues such as civic duty, justice, truth, beauty, and the good.  It is the intent of the legislature to continue such program and to establish it by law as more specifically provided in this Part.

Acts 1999, No. 595, §1, eff. June 30, 1999.