Texas lawmakers want to scrap the much-maligned STAAR test in favor of a series of shorter exams. The Legislature is ...

Rather than having a once-a-year test offered, lawmakers at the state capitol are exploring changes to the STAAR exam.

A Texas House committee voted unanimously to get rid of the STAAR test and replace it with a series of shorter tests ...

Texas House lawmakers are proposing legislation that would eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness. House Bill 4 would also revamp Texas’ public school accountability system.

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, test could be given a failing grade before the Texas ...

Dallas Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde told a theater full of educators on Tuesday that Texas could be “standing on the precipice” of eliminating the STAAR test. During her annual State of ...

House lawmakers are proposing to replace the state’s annual STAAR exams with a series of tests given throughout the year under a plan they say would reduce the exams’ high-stakes nature and ...

Former Houston ISD teacher and Community Voices for Public Education co-founder Ruth Kravetz speaks about a STAAR test boycott in front of the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center on Monday ...