Fairfax schools officials ax honors classes

Published July 5, 2011 4:00am ET



How do you convince more African-American and Hispanic high school students to sign up for demanding college-level Advanced Placement courses? If you’re Fairfax County Public Schools, you take away their other options — even if the end result is more students taking the least challenging classes.

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