The school year is coming to a close, but families still have a few weeks to wait to see how students performed on state assessments. The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known ...

Thanks to passage of House Bill 8 during the most recent special season of the Texas Legislature, Texas students will have a new battery of tests to take starting in the 2027-28 school year. House ...

Skeptics of the replacement, which requires three exams throughout the year, want to see less restrictions on testing day and more teacher input.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Texas Education Agency has released its preliminary results from this year’s STAAR assessment. Scores are showing moderate changes from previous years with students ...

Texas students this spring will take a newly redesigned version of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test, a change educators and school district officials hope will better align ...

HOUSTON — A sweeping education reform bill that could reshape how students are tested in Texas is one step closer to becoming law. House Bill 4, which aims to replace the STAAR exam, passed the Texas ...

Commissioner of Education Mike Morath notified school districts and open-enrollment charter schools that the Texas Education Agency has launched the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Since the Texas Education Agency took over HISD, some parents say there's more focus than ever on test performance and not on actually learning. STAAR is the end-of-year exam ...

The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday released this year's STAAR test results for students in third through eighth grades. The results show the effects of the COVID pandemic are still lingering, but ...

Should we get rid of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (or STAAR) test? It’s been a frequent promise by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, but whether the state can ...