St. Petersburg Times – Ron Matus
“For a decade, Florida has gone gangbusters with Advanced Placement classes, pouring students and money into the college-caliber, high school courses that some say are a good way to prepare “average” students for higher education. Families are saving tens of millions of dollars each year from the rapidly growing numbers of students who are passing AP exams . . . The Times found the college credits earned by this year’s AP test passers will potentially save another $30 million for taxpayers.”(more)