Students at Lone Star High School in Frisco wrote English essays during a practice test in February 2011. Frisco ISD gave most of its STAAR tests online, but a tech glitch bogged down the system and ...

Texas public school students began taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests this month. The STAAR tests evaluate student knowledge and skills learned throughout the school ...

Texas lawmakers have sent legislation replacing STAAR, the state’s widely unpopular state standardized test, to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. Once Abbott signs House Bill 8, Texas will swap the State of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why does this test dominate so much space in and out of the classroom? The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, better known as the STAAR test, looms large over education in Texas. Kids ...

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 ...

Results for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams were released this week, showing improvement in certain areas across the state. Results for math, reading language arts, science ...

Texas may be just days away from replacing the STAAR test, the controversial end-of-year exam for public school students. A deal fell through in the spring at the state capitol, but lawmakers are back ...