Governor Robert P. Casey's 1990-91 budget excluded the nearly $150,000 in annual funds necessary to establish a new Governor's School on Health and Human Development at University Park.

Held during the summer, the program would give high school students a chance to take classes and live on campus as if they were college students.

However, the budget has been given to the General Assembly to analyze during the next four months and the funds for the school could still be included in the final budget expected to pass in June, said Rep. Lynn Herman, R-Bellefonte.

The proposed five-week school, which would consist of 64 high school juniors and seniors from Pennsylvania, is intended to give the students a better idea "of the health care challenges facing the Commonwealth, with a particular emphasis on rural health issues," Herman wrote in a Jan. 9 letter to Casey supporting the school.

Herman said the school would benefit students and Commonwealth residents because the students would be educated in those areas necessary to control health care costs and provide better health care for citizens.

Currently, there are five Governor's schools in the fields of business, agricultural sciences, international studies, arts and sciences.

The schools benefit the graduates academically, personally and professionally by providing a focus in an area of study and preparing them for college. Due to the competitiveness of the schools, only nine of about 52 students that applied last year were accepted into the schools from State College High School, said John Sheridan, director of Learning Enrichment/Special Education Gifted program at State College High School.

Meanwhile, Herman said he would be working with legislative leaders to get the funds needed for the program included in the final 1990-91 budget.

A spokeswoman at the University's College of Health and Human Development did not want to comment on the Governor's School at this time.