magazine (Perception), and produces a newscast (Pantherama/P:tv). Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) School Beginning the 2012-2013 school year, Annapolis High School, along with Broadneck High School became the Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) high schools of Anne Arundel County. PVA is the now newest option of Magnet programs Anne Arundel County has to offer. Magnet Programs of Choice are optional advanced programs of studies, each specializing and emphasizing instruction in their own areas of interest. PVA's focuses delve into honing and strengthening artistic craft and talent. Students residing in Anne Arundel County have the opportunity to try out for the PVA, and if they pass their audition, they attend either Annapolis or Broadneck High School, depending on which branch of the PVA they audition for. The branches of the PVA that Annapolis houses are Creative Writing, Fine/Digital Visual Art, Dance, Film, Technical Production/Arts Management and Theatre. All branches of Broadkneck PVA are affiliated with a field of Music. County PVA program high school students from both Annapolis and Broakneck collaborate and continue their art studies at a separate building, Studio 39 in down-town Historic Annapolis. Here students are given instruction by professionals in the art world, in additional after school classes. Students also perform shows, create art installations, and put up art galleries that are viewable to the public. Athletics Annapolis High has a football program dating back to 1896 that has won state titles; a boys' basketball program — that has won several state titles; and boys' and girls' lacrosse programs dating back to 1929 that have won numerous state championships. Annapolis has also won state championships in girls' gymnastics (1989). Zero-basing controversy & academic turnaround After the school's standardized test scores failed to meet federal Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards, Anne Arundel County Schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell required the school's entire staff — including the principal, administrators, teachers, secretaries, and custodians — to reapply for their positions in the fall of 2007, a controversial move termed "zero-basing" that is one of several reform options authorized by the Maryland Department of Education and the federal No Child Left Behind law. As a result, around half of the teachers and staff did not return in 2008. The school also hired a group of "AYP Specialists" and other support staff to focus primarily on ensuring that the school's standardized test scores reached state and federal standards. Within 30 months of