Students in the San Angelo Independent School District have started taking their State of Texas Assessments of Academic ...

A new Texas law will change the testing model in two years, but for now, here's what to know about spring 2026 standardized ...

STAAR testing begins in many Texas schools this week, but that will change in the next couple of years. Here's what that ...

More than 80% of Texas schools are graded based on a single STAAR test. Explore why San Antonio educators and advocates are ...

Public school students in third through eighth grade and high schoolers take the bulk of their STAAR exams in April of each ...

The full TribFest program is now LIVE. TribFest 2025 is presented by JPMorganChase Democrats say recent changes to the bill give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the ...

A bill that would replace STAAR, the state's standardized test, with three shorter tests is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. (Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune) Sign up ...

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 schools are graded largely on one STAAR test. Here’s why educators and parents say the A–F system misses the full picture in DFW.

San Antonio fifth grader Sarabella Escobedo is preparing to take her third round of the much-anticipated State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, tests. “I’m feeling pretty good, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Most of the 2,300 STAAR tests that went missing earlier last week have turned up, but 68 are still missing, according to The Texas Education Agency. The STAAR tests went missing last ...