When the College Board chose 100 schools to offer “pre-AP” courses to all freshmen, Spokane was the only district in the nation to get all of its comprehensive high schools into the pilot program.

If some students fall behind in the pre-AP English class, tutoring will be available, she said. The student will remain in the same class but be given different assignments on their level, Boyd said.

Crofford said something that Childers principal Liz Burns says to her pre-AP students each year sums up the attitude of those students who take the advanced classes.

As part of the national pilot that Spokane Public Schools is participating in, Shadle replaced its regular English and biology courses with pre-AP ones. North Central, Rogers, Lewis and Clark and ...

Pre-AP in Dallas currently doesn't start until the seventh grade, but teachers say it has a significant impact, even beyond the students in designated pre-AP classes.