And yes, many have brought it up in class to ask if it was true.

Why? Because it affects them directly.

AP Exams (administered by the College Board) are not inexpensive.

That’s more expensive than the SAT and ACT. And that’s is just for one test. Many students take multiple APs in a school year or over many years. There are students on high school campuses who may take up to six AP tests in one school year.

And while the AP test results do not affect a student’s grade point average, most school systems will not give a student credit on the transcript for taking an AP course unless they officially sit for the AP exam. So, what this bill does on top of adding hundreds of dollars of expense on students is make the very transcript they are trying to strengthen in the eyes of colleges weaker because they did not get the credit.

According to the WRAL report, 760,000 students in our NC public schools fit the definition of “economically disadvantaged” and many of them take AP courses as a way to go ahead and receive college credit.

“According to NCDPI, 84,372 North Carolina public school students took AP exams in 2024.”

“The proposal would also end a decade-long partnership between the state Department of Public Instruction and the College Board aimed at increasing access to advanced coursework.”

Yes, in 2014 the NC General Assembly (then at the time under control of people like Phil Berger) started to fund the fees for AP tests because…

Literally speaking, the same person who helped expand hundreds of millions of dollars to unregulated vouchers is trying to remove the ability for students in public schools that educate over a quarter-of-a-million economically disadvantaged students to take a test for free that may give them college credit.