AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Senate approved legislation Tuesday night aimed at revising the state’s school accountability system and replacing the standardized test with a version meant to reduce ...

A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on students died in the last days of the legislative session. House Bill 4, authored by ...

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 ...

TEXAS, USA — Texas public school administrators, parents and education experts worry that a new law to replace the state's standardized test could potentially increase student stress and the amount of ...

"Texas lawmakers propose replacing STAAR exam with three shorter tests" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization. Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate ...

It feels like Texas Republicans want to claim they eliminated the STAAR test, public school advocates say, but without actually getting rid of it. On Tuesday, the state’s dominant party passed a bill ...

September 4 Update: In a second special legislative session, Texas lawmakers sent House Bill 8 to the governor’s desk. HB 8 is similar to the legislation that was proposed in the first special session ...

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(The 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 a ...