When they voted to end the STAAR test, lawmakers said they wanted to reduce the amount of time students spend taking tests.

The full TribFest program is now LIVE. TribFest 2025 is presented by JPMorganChase Democrats say recent changes to the bill give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — STAAR testing begins Monday for some Texas students. Fourth and seventh graders and some high schoolers will take the writing and English portions of the STAAR test Monday. Then on ...

Students attend a math and reading workshop at a STAAR summer camp held at Dobie Middle School on July 23, 2025. Texas lawmakers will try again to revamp the state’s standardized test during this year ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released its Spring 2024 STAAR assessment results for grades 3-8, which showed mathematics and science performance across all grade levels declined.

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — When elementary and middle school students begin the 2025-2026 school year in September there’s a chance they could be facing a new era of testing in Texas public schools. The Texas ...

The Texas House approved Tuesday a bill to overhaul the STAAR test, but House Democrats’ broad opposition to the proposal underlined lingering disagreements over what a new standardized test should ...

There’s a big difference between testing that measures what kids have learned and testing that simply ranks them against one another, Mary Lynn Pruneda writes, explaining the options to replace the ...

As the regular legislative session drew to a close last month, a proposal to scrap Texas' state test died when lawmakers couldn't agree about what to replace it with. But lawmakers could get a second ...

Before House Bill 8 can go to the governor, the House must formally agree with changes from the Senate, which approved the proposal Wednesday night. Students attend a math and reading workshop at a ...

The days of making sure your pencil marks stay neatly within the lines are over. This year, almost all Texas students will exercise their skills on the STAAR Test online, according to the Texas ...

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 ...