Youngkin's Comprehensive Strategy to Improve Student Test Scores and Reduce Absenteeism in Virginia

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has unveiled a plan to address the decline in student test scores and chronic absenteeism. The plan includes an intensive tutoring program, expanding the Virginia Literacy Act to hire reading specialists, and launching a task force to reduce chronic absenteeism. The recently released Standards of Learning (SOL) test scores showed that students are still struggling to recover from the impact of pandemic school closures. The plan, called "ALL IN VA," will allocate $418 million for learning loss recovery, with 70% of the funding going towards high-dose tutoring. However, critics argue that the governor is not taking accountability for the stagnant results and blame previous administrations and school closures during the pandemic.