SAN ANTONIO – Results released by the Texas Education Agency on Tuesday show State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores have seen improvements this year, even as San Antonio-area ...

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the Spring 2025 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) results for grades 3-8 this week. The results include assessments in reading, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas House passed a new bill Tuesday to remove the STAAR test and replace it with three smaller tests taken throughout the year. However, it received much less support ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Say goodbye to scantrons and bubbling in your answers as this year’s STAAR Test is moving online. The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test is being redesigned to ...

FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for a standards test. In Texas, students will move to a fully online STAAR standardized testing format.

After day after day watching her fourth grade daughter cry, Tereza and her husband finally got to the bottom of it. Daniela was afraid of taking the STAAR test this year. The prospect had become ...

House Bill 8 replaces the test with three shorter assessments. The bill goes into effect at the beginning of the 2027–28 school year.

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo The season of state testing has recently passed for elementary ...

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 ...

School children across Texas have started their STAAR tests. The end of the year assessments always matter, but after the pandemic, the pressure is on for schools to show they've worked to help stop ...

Texas requires those who are learning to drive to answer at least 70 percent of questions correctly on a written test. For the driving test itself, students can have no more than 30 points deducted.

Due to the pandemic, STAAR tests were not given last spring. Let’s continue this practice and retire STAAR, or any similar version of it, forever. Teachers have much better things to do with their ...