“I didn’t even try because I always fail.” Fail. This heartbreaking statement is from a student in a Williamsburg-James City County middle school who recently took their Virginia Standards of Learning ...

Terry McAuliffe promised on the campaign trail to reform the state's student testing system, which he criticized as focused more on memorization than grasp. His 2013 campaign platform said, "We must ...

House Republicans want to cut the number of Standards of Learning tests and improve the remaining assessments as part of a broader education agenda unveiled Tuesday. They seek more “blended learning” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view outside at Chesterfield County Public Schools. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County Public Schools) In a rare moment of ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The University of Virginia is taking a closer look at the state’s standards of learning (SOL) testing gaps, and what they show. Researchers studied the data of school divisions ...

VIRGINIA – SOL or Standards of Learning exam scores are up, and the rate of absenteeism is down, according to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s office. In third through eighth grade, 70% of school divisions ...

Less than a year after it was enacted, lawmakers will revisit a proposal that brought major changes to Virginia’s K-12 public school testing system, with the main debate centering on whether to keep ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Scores from the 2022-23 Standards of Learning tests, or SOLs, were largely unchanged from last school year but are still below Virginia’s pre-pandemic pass rates. Virginia’s ...