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Originally posted by Exquisite5
You would be surprised.
I was fortunate enough to attend a magnet school, Houston's M.E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions [also nationally ranked, a TEA Exemplary school, a National Blue Ribbon School and a New American High School]. I received FREE (well maybe like 20 bucks to cover supplies) Princeton Review. Since my school was a magnet school and had a different funding allocation than most HISD schools it was "rich" enough to have a $50,000 Owl-Link lab installed and to be on Owl-Link (a video internet connection with Rice University) so the Princeton Review class was taught there and simultaneously webcast at my school. We could interact with teacher and students at Rice and everything. Also, in my high school curriculum we were required to take a "SAT prep" class in tenth grade. It wasn't any brand name, but did help lead to my school having one of, if not the, highest SAT averages in the district.
As far as AP exams go, many suburban schools in Texas pay for them for the students. I don't know how, or what budget it comes from but I know that at least in suburbs of Houston and Dallas it occurs. If you want me to do research and actually find school names, I can and will. Something in my head is leaning me towards some schools in Plano ISD (a fairly well off Dallas suburb).
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Solid - I went to DM Central Academy, same concept, top-10 AP school . . .
Anyway - the "magnet school" funding I can live with - that's a top-up educational structure, rather than the quest for homogeny that many school districts tend to strive for. As far as paying for exams as a suburban thing I'd believe it, simply due to the higher amount of funding that they have. It's interesting to think that this might happen for one true 'public' school in a district, but not another, though - that would seem to me to be blatantly illegal, and somebody should just smash them on that. I can see the split between a school you test into, compared to the other schools in the district - but there shouldn't be any distinction between schools based purely on location . . . how sad.