House Bill 8 scraps the unpopular exam for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year starting in the ...

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students ...

A bill to replace the controversial State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test in Texas schools is just one step away from becoming law. Families and educators, however, are split ...

Beginning in fall 2027, Texas public school students in third through 12th grade will take three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of each year. Schools will continue administering the ...

The new system, the SSTAR, is a series of three smaller tests distributed throughout the year rather than one large end-of-course cumulative test. Republican lawmakers have marketed the new testing ...

Longview ISD is working to figure out how the school district will replace the STAAR test after the passage of House Bill 8.

Texas public school administrators, parents and education experts are concerned that a new law to replace the STAAR test will not reduce student stress and testing time, and may even increase it.

The new test wouldn’t roll out until the 2027-28 school year, though. HB 8 would direct the Texas Education Agency to make a ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Most of the 2,300 STAAR tests that went missing earlier last week have turned up, but 68 are still missing, according to The Texas Education Agency. The STAAR tests went missing last ...

Masters grade level means the student has shown mastery of the course and is skilled in the subject area. The data shows the difference in the percentage of students who are approaching the grade ...

A bill that would replace STAAR, the state's standardized test, with three shorter tests is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. (Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune) Sign up ...