[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...

[SoftballMominVA]

That makes sense - and I didn’t know this is round two with the submissions. I guess schools are in a catch-22 with AP’s. Because AP attendance is listed as a positive for the school, they tend to push more and more kids into those classes, but if the kids aren’t ready, then the scores are low.