It is essential for our students to be equipped with the ability to meet the educational standards set by the Virginia Department of Education. With the many assessments and readiness tests they face, ...

The annual Virginia Standards of Learning test results are out. The SOLs are broken down into five subjects: reading, writing, history, math, and science. 10 News looked at five school divisions in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — 8News is taking a closer look at SOL test scores that have been released for school districts across the state. In Chesterfield County, Henrico County and Hanover County, most ...

The stagnant results for the Williamsburg-James City County schools SOL tests reported in the Aug. 17 Virginia Gazette were particularly disheartening because I know that our teachers invested major ...

The day after The Washington Post reported on the push by superintendents of five school divisions for permission to administer Standards of Learning tests to elementary and middle school students in ...

It's SOL blitz time, and a Ware Elementary School third-grader offers an answer to a practice question, an incorrect answer as it turns out. She turns to a classmate. "I told you, I'm a failure," she ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced how students performed on the Commonwealth’s Standards of Learning (SOL) tests. “The big takeaway is that some school divisions ...

The Virginia Board of Education today approved revisions to the standards schools must meet for state accreditation and the requirements students must meet to earn a high school diploma. Months ago ...

When Billy Cannaday was superintendent of Hampton City Schools from 1994-2000, he knew of graduating seniors who could read only at a third-grade level. Today, as superintendent of public instruction ...

“They’re not.” The SOL tests will be used to calculate each individual school’s accreditation ranking, which will be released by the state next week. Schools must meet certain benchmarks on English, ...