Published on:
Tue, 07/05/2011
Media Source:
Washington Examiner
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How do you convince more African-American and Hispanic high school students to sign up for demanding college-level Advanced Placement courses? If you're Fairfax County Public Schools, you take away their other options -- even if the end result is more students taking the least challenging classes. Which is why Restore Honors Courses and Fairgrade are currently circulating an i-petition protesting FCPS' stealth phase-out of upper-level English and Social Studies honors courses in schools where AP is offered. When classes resume in September, rising juniors and seniors will have just two options: General Education or Advanced Placement. Nothing in between.