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SDUSD votes down AP exam mandate
- 04-30-2010
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By Staff/San Diego News Network
The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education tonight voted 3-2 to no longer require students in advanced placement classes to take expensive tests at the end of the semester, but the pupils will still receive weighted grades. The $86 tests were paid for by the district during the current and last school years, at an annual cost of about $680,000, but the outlay fell victim to budget cuts for the 2010-11 school year. Because it is illegal to make students pay for required programs or materials, the district had to drop the requirement of taking the test. Students who pass the rigorous classes and the tests receive weighted credits, where a B in AP is the equivalent of an A in a regular course — which is why some pupils have grade point averages greater than 4.0. (more...)
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