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ESD 112 region schools receive AP grants
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) announced the first round of Advanced Placement Incentive Program Grant recipients, part of the agency’s effort to increase minority and low-income student participation in Advanced Placement (AP) programs in rural schools.
This is the first year of the three-year grant to 38 schools and school districts across the state. Rural school districts seeking to set up Pre-Advanced Placement and Advanced Placement programs are eligible for this support.
Each of the grant recipients demonstrated plans to achieve one or more of the following goals outlined by the U.S. Department of Education and the state proposal:
· Increase the numbers of low-income and underrepresented students enrolled in Pre-AP and/or AP courses and taking AP exams;
· Increase the availability of pre-AP and AP courses in rural school districts serving low-income and underrepresented populations of students;
· Increase the number of teachers prepared to teach pre-AP and AP; or
· Increase student, teacher, administrator, parent and community awareness and support of pre-AP and AP opportunities for students.
The awards may be applied toward a variety of AP-related activities including teacher training, curriculum alignment, communicating with parents and the community about Pre-Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement, and coordinating pre-AP and AP with the state’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements and the Washington Assessment of Student Learning.
The AP program enables students to pursue college-level studies while still in high school. Thirty-five courses in 19 subject areas are offered. Based on their performance on the rigorous AP Exams, students can earn credit, advanced placement, or both, for college. Last year, 15,380 secondary schools in the nation, with a total of more than one million students, participated in the AP program.
The following ESD 112 region schools and districts received AP grants:
· Glenwood High School, Glenwood School District
· Ilwaco Middle and High Schools, Ocean Beach School District
· Trout Lake School, Trout Lake School District
· Wahkiakum High School, Wahkiakum School District