[Ohiogift] Fwd: OAGC - Federal AP Funding for Low Income Students in Jeopardy

[Ann Sheldon]

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> From: "Gulko, Joel" <jgulko at collegeboard.org>
> Date: November 17, 2015 at 8:45:14 PM EST
> To: Ann Sheldon <anngift at aol.com>
> Subject: OAGC - Federal AP Funding for Low Income Students in Jeopardy
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> Ann –
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> I am sending you an email that is currently being sent to AP coordinators, principals and superintendents across the nation.  You may want to push this out through the listserv.  Many students in urban centers, rural areas and inner ring districts will be impacted if federal funding for AP fees for low income students is eliminated.
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> Joel
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> Subject:  Urgent – Act Now to Save AP Funding for Low-Income Students in Your School!
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> We need your help to save the AP Test Fee Program, which reduces the price of AP Exams for more than 500,000 low-income AP students nationwide – including those in your district/school.  Congressional leaders are meeting this week to finalize the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Unlike the existing ESEA, this new bill will eliminate the AP Test Fee Program, and thus will NOT dedicate funds for low-income students’ AP Exam fees. 
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> If the new bill is passed as it is currently written, the cost of AP Exams for these low-income students could increase more than $40 per exam, potentially eliminating a path to college access and college credit that is critical to these students. 
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> Here’s what you can do:
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> Call your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators today, and ask them to contact members of the ESEA Conference Committee and urge them to preserve the AP Test Fee Program. If either of your U.S. Senators or your U.S. Representative is on the ESEA Conference Committee, it is especially important that they hear from you today.
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> Without your help, the AP Test Fee Program will be eliminated.
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> Here is a link to identify your Members of Congress, with their contact information: https://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup
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> Share with your Senators and Representative direct examples of the ways your students benefit from the opportunity to take AP courses and to earn college credit. Your stories are powerful.
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> Additional details to provide:
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> ·        In 2015, the AP Test Fee Program combined $28.5 million from the federal government with more than $29 million from the College Board to make the AP Exams affordable for low-income students. As a result, low-income students earned AP scores that qualified them for $280 million in college credits and helped them to complete college more quickly.
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> ·        In the 16 years since the AP Test Fee Program was created, access to AP has increased tenfold, with low-income students taking more than 800,000 AP Exams in 2015. AP has a powerful impact on college readiness and college affordability for the nation’s most disadvantaged students.
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> If you have questions, please contact Karen Lanning at klanning at collegeboard.org.
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> Sincerely,
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> Trevor Packer
> Head of Advanced Placement and Instruction
> The College Board
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> Joel Gulko  Senior Director
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