Three of the city’s elite public high schools improperly charged poor students nearly $221,000 to take college-credit exams that should have been free, city investigators said yesterday.
Thousands of low-income students at Bronx HS of Science, Brooklyn Technical HS and Stuyvesant HS were allegedly made to pay up to $52 for each Advanced Placement exam they took – even though the state paid for the tests on the students’ behalf.
Education Department spokeswoman Marge Feinberg said schools that received the test-program funds would be made to reimburse students.