April 8 kicks off the first round of STAAR testing across Texas. STAAR stands for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness. It's a state testing program that has been in place for about 15 ...

STAAR testing was underway this week, but for Santa Fe ISD, testing was impacted due to what the district described as a “cyber event.” Details are scarce, but Santa Fe ISD shared on its Facebook page ...

Texas public school administrators, parents and education experts worry that a new law to replace the state's standardized test could potentially increase student stress and the amount of time they ...

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 ...

Texas is replacing STAAR tests in the 2027-28 school year. When lawmakers voted in September to eliminate Texas’ end-of-year state test and replace it with three shorter exams, they said they wanted ...

A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on students died in the last days of the legislative session. House Bill 4, authored by ...

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 ...

The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance. So recently, we asked how the STAAR has affected you and people around you.

As stultifying as it is useless, as anxiety-inducing as it is deadening, STAAR testing is such an abject failure that it has succeeded in the unthinkable: uniting Democrats and Republicans in the ...

I’m still angry about private school vouchers coming to Texas, so it’s a little hard for me to trust anything coming out of our Legislature right now. The House voted, almost unanimously, to abolish ...

The Texas House and Senate are inching closer to a deal that would end the state’s standardized testing regime as we know it. Unfortunately, like a certain steamboat pilot turned author whose work we ...