Cheney School District named to College Board advance placement honor roll

The Cheney School District is one of 19 in the state, three in Spokane County, and 539 districts across 44 of the nation’s 50 states and Canada to be named to the College Board’s third annual AP District Honor Roll for “simultaneously increasing access to advanced placement course work while increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams.”

According to a Nov. 13 press release announcing the selections, since 2010 the school district has increased the number of AP students by 44 percent. Superintendent Dr. Debra Clemens attributed the increase to the district su...