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 ...

(The Center Square) – Student excitement about the legislature abolishing the annual statewide standardized test may be short lived. Instead of one test, students will soon have to take three. HB 8, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas House has voted to dismantle the STAAR test as we know it, but the proposed fix has some parents and educators saying lawmakers are simply multiplying the problem.

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) - Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate introduced Monday similar bills to scrap the state’s standardized test, signaling newfound agreement between chamber leaders to finish ...

Two years into state intervention, students at Houston ISD campuses within the New Education System have made gains that outpaced their peers — although their scores remain far behind their ...

Texas’ top education official offered a grim assessment of students’ math skills, emphasizing that COVID disruptions linger — even for the children who weren’t in public school when campuses shut down ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Texas’ students saw some wins in reading but continued to struggle to bounce back from pandemic-related ...

Texas students showed improvement in statewide reading scores. Corpus Christi ISD saw gains in math across multiple grade levels. Outcomes from Texas standardized testing this spring show statewide ...

/ Texas Education Agency Texas elementary and middle school students made gains in reading this year, prompting education leaders to celebrate the scores as a sign that the state’s focus on literacy ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

Fort Worth ISD is celebrating signs of academic progress following a difficult year marked by accountability concerns and performance challenges. New STAAR results released this week show reading ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KCBD) - The Texas Education Agency released STAAR results, showing the average middle schooler is reading better than they did before the pandemic. The TEA published the results of the ...