Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Wednesday recommended that investors in eyecare company STAAR Surgical vote against a planned deal with Alcon AG, due to pushback from big ...

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 ...

TEXAS, USA — 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 ...

ABILENE, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott recently signed House Bill 8 into law, replacing the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Test with shorter exams throughout the school year.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Skeptics of the replacement, which requires three exams throughout the ...

“We were organized in Smith County in 1990 to serve abused and neglected children in our community,” says Mary Jo Burgess, Executive Director and CEO, CASA for Kids of East Texas. On September 4, 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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — A shakeup is coming to how Texas students are tested. House Bill 8, signed into law by the governor on Wednesday, phases out the STAAR exam as we know it. Starting in 2027, students will ...