
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 16, 1990                   TAG: 9003162283
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Short

MAGNET SCHOOL WON'T TAKE TUITION STUDENTS

The new Governor's School for Science, Math and Technology planned for Pulaski County will accept neither tuition payments nor applications from parents, the governing board decided Thursday.

Instead, tuition for the school must come out of a local school board's operating budget. The matter was decided in a unanimous vote by eight governing board members. The board also agreed that all applications to the school must be channeled through local school boards.

The decision applies to Montgomery County and Radford, two school systems that were invited to participate but decided not to send students to the school this year.

Montgomery County and Radford parents have inquired about paying the tuition themselves.

The governing board also agreed to give Montgomery County and Radford another opportunity to send students to the school if the seven participating divisions don't fill up all available seats by May 15.

So far, Pulaski, Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles and Wythe counties and Galax are sending 39 students to the school. It will accommodate up to 55 students the first year, and about 96 every year after that, Colbert said.

by CNB