[SoftballMominVA]

Actually, as of this spring, teachers have to submit their syllabi, tests, and other prep materials to the college board and the college board will decide if the class meets the standard of “AP” What will happen to some kids is that the AP designation on their transcripts will be changed to ‘honors’ because the class didn’t meet up to the standard needed. The only thing a school can provide is the weight, which may be worthless anyway since the overwhelming majority of colleges want an unweighted GPA

[Principled]

Actually, as of this spring, teachers have to submit their syllabi, tests,...

This has happened before as well. The reason, however, is not that schools have been providing AP credit on their own (as was suggested). The reason is that fewer and fewer kids were earning sufficient scores to make AP worthwhile. That's the impetus for the audits...