The American Dream is essentially rooted in attaining a quality education, Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin told attendees at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute's RISE summit on Thursday. Youngkin said he has made education similarly a bedrock of his tenure in Richmond, in that he is dedicated to improving the lives of Virginians and helping to offer the next generation a chance to live to their fullest potential.
Proficiency expectations of students had been 'watered down,' he recounted, and therefore, Virginia students were falling behind their peers on a national scale. 'What does that mean? Fewer correct answers on tests that translate into whether a student is proficient or not,' he said. 'That is reducing standards and Virginia went from having some of the top standards in the nation to having the lowest proficiency standards in the nation.
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