After initially saying Albemarle County Public Schools fell short, the Virginia Department of Education now concludes that the county’s schools have made Adequate Yearly Progress.

A state report on school achievement is packed with good news for Albemarle County, school officials say, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.

Nine Charlottesville and Albemarle County schools fell below 2008 federal education progress benchmarks established by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act.

The No Child Left Behind Act is underfunded and needs to be reformed, the president of the National Education Association told a class of soon-to-be teachers at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education on Tuesday.