As we all know the AP exam has been "suspended". Adriana Benvenuto attended a conference in Washington DC on June 13, 2009 that focused on the expansion of the teaching of Italian. All of the discussions concentrated on the "what" and not on the "how" of the present situation. The bottom line is the College Board wants more money and the Italian government is not providing any more money to support the AP exam. I am in the process of finding out the disposition of all the money that was collected through the Italian Language Foundation, and exactly how much College Board requires to put the AP Italian exam on line. As Paolo Rossi and Marilena Martello have iterated, it is up to us, the teachers, to find innovative ways to continue and extend the teaching of Italian because the bureaucratic representatives from Italy are really not providing the monetary support that we need. "Tutto fumo e niente arrosto" We need to look into private grants, Italian-American organizations, and US government grants to support our teaching, students and expansion of our programs