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Gov. Glenn Youngkin Details Improved Performance Of Virginia Students After The Pandemic

Published August 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:31

In a moment, I'm going to turn it over to Secretary Guerdera and the superintendent order to take us through a lot of the details. But I want to just summarize for you, I want to summarize for you today's message. We made the tests harder and yet the students performance improved. And I'm going to say that again. We made the tests harder and the students performance improved. That is a testament to the capabilities of Virginia students. (05:31–05:38)

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“Virginia Students [suffered] the largest learning loss in the country.”
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“Virginia, the commonwealth of Virginia, the cradle of democracy, had the lowest definition of proficiency in the nation.”
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“We had some of the lowest in person learning time in the country.”
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“One in five students missed at least 18 days of school.”
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“The tests, on average, according to Pearson, who administers the tests, are 30 to 40% more difficult.”
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“Virginia has led the nation in reducing chronic absenteeism.”
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“When we set high expectations, the results improve.”
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“Virginia students are excellent. Virginia students are ambitious.”
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“Virginia students deserve the kinds of education that I believe the commonwealth is now providing.”
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“For the first time in the last three decades, based on testing scores, the nation scorecard, Virginia students were average.”
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“A 50% increase in funding, direct aid for our schools from $14 billion over the biennium before we got here to $21 billion this biennium.”
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“We increased transparency and accountability with massive transformation in the accreditation system.”
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“We went to work to combat learning loss in the chronic absenteeism.”
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“We created a better system for our students with disabilities.”
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“We still have a school system in Loudoun county that still used funds that they should have used for students with disabilities for other…”
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“We have made behavioral health a priority for our students.”
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“We made the tests more rigorous so that students can demonstrate mastery of subjects.”
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“We're going to make sure that more students are taking advanced math.”
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“We were making sure that students have access to dual enrollment so they could take college courses.”
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“418 million in direct support for school divisions over a three year period.”
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“We accelerated the implementation of the Virginia Literacy act.”
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“Math and reading scores are up.”
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“We're seeing more students taking college level classes.”
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“We're seeing more students earning industry recognized credentials.”
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“We now have transparent data, hard tests and scores improving.”
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