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This year, taxpayers paid the nonprofit at least $90 million for A.P. tests that many students failed.

BOSTON — For the past two decades, the College Board has moved aggressively to expand the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses and tests — in part by pitching the program to low-income students and the schools that serve them. It is a matter of equity, they argue. “What if the best stuff in education were not just for the best to distinguish themselves — but could engage a much broader set of kids?” asked David Coleman, the College Board’s CEO, in a January podcast in

Students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses face too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots.

University students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses faced far too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots.

University students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses faced far too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots. In Ohio, some students had to cast provisional ballots because poll workers wouldn’t accept university-issued utility bills as proof of residency, in violation of state law.