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 students began taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests this month. The STAAR tests evaluate student knowledge and skills learned throughout the school ...

Apr. 14—As STAAR testing begins April 15, two teachers at IDEA Yukon are taking different approaches they hope will engage students and make the ordeal a little bit more bearable. Most of the month of ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A spokesperson in the governor’s office confirmed Gov. Greg Abbott will sign House Bill 8, which will change the way Texas public school students are tested starting in the ...

TAAR measures only a portion of state standards, with passing scores determined after all tests have been scored. STAAR is even unable to measure how much a student learns and grows over the course of ...

Mike Miles had encouraging news on student scores, and as he acknowledged, a long road ahead. Credit: Photo by Violeta Alvarez Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles gained more than a little breathing ...

The Texas House voted almost unanimously on Monday to scrap STAAR testing in favor of a series of shorter exams that public school students would take throughout the year. The plan, House Bill 4, is a ...

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 ...

Grace Roa teaches third grade math at IDEA Yukon. Roa serves as the grade team leader and campus content lead for math for grades three to five and the regional math mentor for IDEA Permian Basin. As ...