Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • December 12, 2012 Mahwah The Mahwah School District has been named to the College Board’s Third Annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll for increasing Advanced Placement course work while also increasing the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on AP exams. Achieving both of these goals is the ideal scenario for a district’s AP program, because it indicates that the district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit from rigorous course work. More than 90 percent of colleges and universities across the U.S. offer college credit, advanced placement, or both for a score of three or higher on an AP exam, which can College Board recognizes township’s public schools potentially save students and their families thousands of dollars in college tuition. A total of 539 school districts across 44 of 50 states in the U.S. and six Canadian provinces achieved honor roll status this year. Thirty-four districts from New Jersey were selected. Mahwah was one of six Bergen County districts to receive this recognition, along with Midland Park, Northern Highlands Regional, Park Ridge, Waldwick, and Washington Township. In May, 183 Mahwah High School students took 369 exams in 19 academic subject areas. Eighty-five percent of those students scored a three or higher on an AP exam. Five TD Bank has promoted Martin B. Frey to vice president/foreign exchange officer in Mahwah. He is responsible for providing foreign exchange products and services to clients in North Jersey and in New York in Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley. Frey has more than 20 years of banking experience. He joined TD Bank in 2005 and most recently served as store manager in Morristown. Before that, Frey served as first vice president, treasurer at Banca Popolare di Milano in New York City. A resident of Chatham, Frey was educated in Switzerland, receiving a bachelor’s degree in finance from Frey named TD Bank VP a university in Zurich. TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, is one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S., providing nearly eight million customers with a full range of retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services at nearly 1,300 convenient locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Metro D.C., the Carolinas and Florida. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Portland, Maine. To learn more, visit www.tdbank. com. Find TD Bank on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TDMoneyLoungeUS and on Twitter at www. twitter.com/TDBank_US. Pictured at right: Martin B. Frey is the highest score possible. “We applaud the extraordinary efforts of the devoted teachers and administrators in these districts, who are fostering rigorous work worth doing. These educators have not only expanded student access to AP course work, but they have enabled more of their students to achieve on a college level—which is helping to create a strong college-going culture,” said College Board President David Coleman. Helping more students learn at a higher level and earn higher AP scores is an objective of all members of the AP community, from AP teachers to district and school administrators to college professors. Many districts are experimenting with a variety of initiatives and strategies to determine how to expand access and improve student performance simultaneously. Inclusion on the new honor roll is based on the examination of AP data, from 2010 to 2012. In order to be included, districts must: Increase participation/access to AP by at least four percent in large districts, at least six percent in medium districts, and at least 11 percent in small districts; Ensure that the percentage of African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students taking AP exams did not decrease by more than five percent for large and medium districts or by more than 10 percent for small districts; Improve performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2012 scoring a three or higher to those in 2010, unless the district has already attained a performance level in which more than 70 percent of the AP students are scoring a three or higher.