REACH announced its results from the last school year

REACH announced its results from the last school year: at the 31 schools, 1,270 students earned over $372,000 for passing more than 1,600 AP exams.  Here's an excerpt from the press release:

 

REACH: Rewarding Achievement, an incentive scholarship education reform initiative sponsored by the Pershing Square Foundation and the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP), announces today that students at the 28 New York City high schools fully participating in the REACH program showed a 10% increase in Advanced Placement exams taken and a 4% increase in exams passed, building on the even larger gains shown in the previous year.  In total, over the first two full years of the REACH program, students took 30% more AP exams and passed 27% more.

 

Collectively, this year's class of REACH Scholars earned over $372,000, based on incentive scholarship awards of $500 for each AP exam score of 5, $400 for each 4 and $300 for each 3 achieved (students who didn't complete REACH's free Learn, Earn, Win! (LEW) intensive 21-hour AP prep program earned $150, $125 and $100, respectively).