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 ...

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During the Sept. 17 board meeting, officials set a goal to increase the number of students who pass the STAAR for math and ...

The district saw a decline in early childhood reading and math performance alongside improvements to college, career and ...

Those goals are to increase math and English Language Arts growth across the district. According to LISD’s Campus Improvement ...

Plainview and other school districts contend TEA commissioner Mike Morath should have had the STAAR evaluated by an impartial ...

In addition, students at Core5 schools correctly answered more reading and writing items on the STAAR RLA assessment than students at non-Core5 schools. “Several Texas districts began ...

Two new studies from Texas and Florida show that students in elementary schools that use Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) exhibit greater growth in literacy skills than students in schools that do not use ...

First and foremost, you will work vigorously to prepare students for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness — or STAAR ... proficiency in math and writing (as graded by computers ...

The state of Texas is looking for motivated people — lots of them — to step into classrooms for the 2024-25 academic year.