Like everything created through legislation, House Bill 8 was a product of politics and carries echoes of that oppositional ...

House Bill 8 replaces the once-a-year State of Texas Academic Assessment of Readiness with tests at the beginning, middle and ...

In sum: Test scores have been trending down for over a decade. There are some signs of recovery in math, but not many in ...

CREEED’s Education for All Initiative honors teachers at five elementary schools in El Paso County with a large number of ...

In 2026, Texas public schools will face a horizon with a slightly slowing population boom; the first applications from ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In just two years, the STAAR test will be gone. Instead, Texas students will take three shorter tests, administered at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the school ...

Texas has been tweaking and twisting its standardized testing system since it was first introduced in 1979, continuously looking for the best way to judge students’ capacity to learn, teachers’ ...

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes standardized test each ...

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DALLAS -- The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Wednesday night. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes ...