It’s easy to test but hard to teach. The next chapter in Texas education policy must start with a bold but simple shift.

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

Texas lawmakers return to Austin for the special session called by Governor Abbott. Eliminating and replacing the STAAR test is one of the topics.

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

Abbott’s lengthy agenda for the Texas Legislature includes unfinished business, such as eliminating the STAAR test, and ...

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

After multiple failed attempts in recent years, State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) is once again trying to ...

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

Districts had sued against the release of last year's scores over concerns of officials rolling out an automated system to ...

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

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