April is STAAR season in Texas public schools. STAAR, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, are the standardized tests Texas students take at the end of the school year starting in ...

Texas legislators and education leaders discussed the main issues facing public education in Texas during a House Committee ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEXAS, USA — Texas lawmakers are making another push to eliminate the STAAR test, proposing a replacement system that would fundamentally change how Texas measures student performance. House Bill 8, ...

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 ...

Education leaders faced tough questions from lawmakers on declining enrollment, campus closures, STAAR testing, school safety ...

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.