Virginia public school students saw slight improvements on their annual state accountability tests compared with last year, but for the fourth year in a row fared much worse than in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Standards of Learning assessments are given in the spring of each school year to measure student achievement for various subjects in grades 3 through 8.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced the pass rates for the 2023-24 assessments at a news conference Tuesday morning.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.