The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...

The last time we checked in with our local school district, the trustees were pondering the connection between Austin ISD’s ...

For Austin ISD and Round Rock ISD, multiple factors have led to lower achievement in recent years, officials said.

I really do think the pandemic brought everybody’s attention to, ‘Houston, we might have a math problem,’” said Susan Diaz, ...

Educator, writer, and researcher Dr. Irma Guadarrama pens a guest column about a lawsuit brought by various Texas school ...

starting in third grade. C&I has made those adjustments this year,” Boyer said. There are also gaps in testing. Students in fifth grade take the STAAR science test, but aren’t tested in the ...

The board of trustees received an overview of the school district’s results of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests during ... she said. In third grade reading there ...

The Texas Education Agency relies on STAAR results to determine ... is considered passing the STAAR test. The district's goal is for at least 58% of third grade students to score at the "meets ...

Texas Education Agency officials plan to appeal the decision, agency spokesman Jake Kobersky said. The grades are based largely on how well students perform on the STAAR tests. This is the second ...

Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading system for the STAAR test is flawed. The district’s board of trustees ...

Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath said ... those ratings are based on a flawed assessment instrument (the new STAAR test) that is not valid and reliable,” the lawsuit read.