From flood recovery efforts to eliminating the STAAR test and reducing property taxes, here's what's on the agenda for the ...

Texas’ first special session of 2025 starts Monday, during which state lawmakers will consider new congressional maps approve ...

Texas lawmakers return to Austin for the special session called by Governor Abbott. Eliminating and replacing the STAAR test is one of the topics.

State Sen. Paul Bettencourt isn’t sure 30 days will be enough time to address 18 agenda items during the special session.

It’s easy to test but hard to teach. The next chapter in Texas education policy must start with a bold but simple shift.

AUSTIN, Texas — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has filed a new bill to scrap the STAAR Test from Texas ...

State Rep. Brooks Landgraf, has filed House Bill 92 in an effort to eliminate the STAAR test and reduce standardized testing ...

Abbott wants an alternative means to gauge student progress and school accountability, not necessarily an end to standardized ...

Is the STAAR test to hard? It’s a question that state lawmakers have been grappling with as a handful of pieces of legislation have been filed to improve the test or get rid of it.

“It’s not opting out of the STAAR test. It’s opting for remote education,” Morath said. Federal and state law mandate that students in grades three through 12 take the STAAR exams, ...

The STAAR test doesn’t measure what we need it to measure: Whether kids are learning in school Studies show the amount of instruction time hardly affects testing outcomes.