Significant changes to the STAAR test caused Ector County ISD’s scores to decline, along with the entire state’s scores. Those changes included new question types, testing format and scoring ...

but teachers and parents are well aware of the stress students experience when preparing for the STAAR test at the end of every academic year. Standardized testing will never be beloved, but in ...

College Station ISD had some ups and downs in its STAAR accountability results ... “I think one of the things we’re going to dig into this year is our curriculum. … We need to do a ...

In this week’s episode of Big Country Politics, the superintendents of Wiley ISD, Joey Light, and Abilene ISD, Dr. John Kuhn, discussed the potential impact ...

One of the first things ... test scores, either. In 2023, the latest year for which data was available, just 57% of students were approaching grade level or higher in all subjects of the STAAR ...

FWISD administrators say consistency is needed to pick up the pace on improvements. Trustees wanted specifics and the bigger ...

"What I think is lacking is leadership from the board they're really struggling with what their place is and how they move things forward ... particular group of STAAR test scores and a concerning ...

The Tuesday meeting comes three weeks after Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and other local leaders sent a letter to school ...

The blood test used currently, which measures levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen (PSA), is not accurate enough which is why such a screening programme does not exist already.

“There is an imperative to talk about these things,” Chase said ... including less reliance on the STAAR test and more state funding for technology infrastructure and digital learning ...