Minority students like Arianna, who is African American, and Andrea, who is Latina, are generally considered unlikely AP and IB pupils due to their ethnicities and lower-income backgrounds.
But such profiling is changing in the Simi Valley Unified School District as a result of its recent partnership with Equal Opportunity Schools, a not-for-profit organization devoted to closing the equity gap for demographically challenged students in academically rigorous AP and IB classes.
