MD State Board of Ed. President: "Dubious move to reject Advanced Placement"

In a Fordham Institute article the president of the Maryland State Board of Education, Chester E. Finn, Jr. says:

Advanced Placement is about as close as American K–12 education has today to a gold standard—and as close as we come to a quality national curriculum at the intersection of high school and college. 

 https://edexcellence.net/articles/dubious-move-to-reject-advanced-placement

Although Mr. Finn does not identify himself as the president of the Maryland State Board of Education at the end of the article, readers can find his information at this link on the Maryland State Board of Education website.