AUSTIN, Texas — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has filed a new bill to scrap the STAAR Test from Texas ...

State Representative Brooks Landgraf is once again filing a motion to eliminate the STAAR standardized test in public schools.

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Abbott wants an alternative means to gauge student progress and school accountability, not necessarily an end to standardized ...

After dozens died in the Hill Country floods, flood alerts, sirens, and relief top Gov. Abbott's special session agenda. Here ...

The special session agenda also includes eliminating the STAAR test, cutting property taxes, enacting THC and hemp ...

Gov. Abbott has 18 total items on the agenda for the special session, including four tied to the catastrophic flooding in the ...

Fort Bend ISD has six elementary schools where fifth graders master both reading and math — here are the schools.

An already packed special session agenda grew exponentially last week — due in part to the catastrophic Hill Country flooding ...

A Texas court of appeals ruled that the TEA can release school accountability ratings for the 2023-2024 school year which are ...

DISD saw gains in the percentage of students meeting grade-level expectations, and these achievements should be celebrated.

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