District budget cut hits low-income AP students
“Elimination of a low-income student subsidy may have led to a significant drop in the number of advancement-placement students in Burbank Unified and an even deeper plunge in AP exams taken during the 2017-18 school year. One hundred fewer students took AP classes, while 453 fewer exams were taken during the last school year, said John Paramo, the district’s director of secondary education, during a school board meeting last Thursday.”