House Bill 8 scraps the unpopular exam for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year starting in the ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - East Texas public school students can expect a change in state testing in the coming years. The STAAR test at the end of the year will be replaced with three new shorter tests ...

Texas public school administrators, parents and education experts worry that a new law to replace the state’s standardized ...

The new system, the SSTAR, is a series of three smaller tests distributed throughout the year rather than one large end-of-course cumulative test. Republican lawmakers have marketed the new testing ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Most of the 2,300 STAAR tests that went missing earlier last week have turned up, but 68 are still missing, according to The Texas Education Agency. The STAAR tests went missing last ...

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 ...

Longview ISD is working to figure out how the school district will replace the STAAR test after the passage of House Bill 8.

AUSTIN, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Texas lawmakers have sent legislation replacing STAAR, the state’s ...