The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board struck a compromise with Advanced Placement students taking multiple AP classes Monday, moderating a policy that could have lowered students' grades.
The system used to help pay for course-ending AP exams, which cost $87 per test, provided students took more than three of them. That policy ended this year in a budget-cutting move, but the change wasn't announced to students until after they registered for AP courses.
The system also has a policy that lowers students' AP course grades if they don't take the corresponding AP exams. The policy is meant to help the system harvest performance data and compare scores from various schools.
But with the system cutting exam funding, students would have been required to "pay $87 for a grade," Reynolds senior Rioghnach Robinson said Monday. In the compromise approved Monday, students will still have to pay for all their AP exams, but their grades won't be lowered if they don't take all the exams, provided they take at least three.
Robinson and fellow seniors Anne O'Brien and Eric Barefoot lobbied for the change through a petition that they said got about 200 signatures. O'Brien said the school board was "very receptive" to their request, and that she was happy with the compromise.
Travis Fain
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