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 ...

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state's standardized tests will be graded automatically by ...

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 ...

AUSTIN The Texas Education Agency Friday released spring 2023 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results for end-of-course (EOC) assessments. The results include assessments in ...

A bill that would replace STAAR, the state's standardized test, with three shorter tests is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. (Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune) Sign up ...

FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for the the Common Core State Standards Test at Morgan Elementary School South in Stockport, Ohio.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released its Spring 2024 STAAR assessment results for grades 3-8, which showed mathematics and science performance across all grade levels declined.

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes standardized test each ...