AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

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 ...

/ Texas Education Agency Texas elementary and middle school students made gains in reading this year, prompting education leaders to celebrate the scores as a sign that the state’s focus on literacy ...

Texas elementary and middle school students improved slightly in reading language arts scores this year, but showed spottier performance in math, according to state test results released Tuesday by ...

Editor’s note: A correction was issued to reflect the House took a preliminary step to eliminating the STAAR test. AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House of Representatives took one more step Monday to ...

A 9th grade student prepares for a pre-test in a program that provides support for students taking the STAAR test at Elsik High School in Houston on April 19, 2018. (Pu Ying Huang For The Texas ...

In an archive photo, a student takes a remedial math class at Haltom High School to study for the STAAR state standardized tests. The Texas Education Agency released Spring 2025 STAAR test results on ...

Most large Houston-area districts saw slight declines over the past two years on STAAR test data released Tuesday, but most still outperformed state averages. Katy ISD, a west Houston district with 96 ...

The Texas House preliminarily approved a bill to replace the STAAR test with a shorter one. The bill aims to reduce testing time and use results to inform instruction, addressing concerns about the ...

Across Central Texas, the top performing school districts on newly released annual state testing data tended to be in areas with lower proportions of economically disadvantaged and emergent bilingual ...