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 ...

If there's anything left that can unite Texans, it is hatred for the STAAR exams, the state's end-of year standardized assessments given to public school students starting in third grade. This ...

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

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — As the STAAR test season is winding down, districts across the state have been preparing our students to perform well. "We've got students across the district taking their math ...

Some Houston ISD parents say their children are being presented with STAAR exams even after they opt their children out of the state-mandated assessments. Houston education advocacy group Community ...

HOUSTON, Texas — The Texas Education Agency has released the Spring 2025 STAAR End-of-Course (EOC) assessment results, offering an updated look at how high-school students across Texas are performing ...

As stultifying as it is useless, as anxiety-inducing as it is deadening, STAAR testing is such an abject failure that it has succeeded in the unthinkable: uniting Democrats and Republicans in the ...

There are so many problems with the STAAR, the best place to begin is to simply say it must end. The STAAR, or State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, cannot be salvaged. It cannot be fixed.

Read full article: Man found shot dead inside a vehicle in a Northeast Harris County neighborhood, suspects still on the loose A man named Jonah Cornnell McQueen has been charged with murder after ...

The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance. So recently, we asked how the STAAR has affected you and people around you.