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

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

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State Rep. Brooks Landgraf, has filed House Bill 92 in an effort to eliminate the STAAR test and reduce standardized testing ...

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

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 Community Summer Bash coordinated by Scott's STAAR Foundation was going much like he'd envisioned when he and STAAR staff ...

These moves, some of which were previously reported by the Houston Chronicle, inflated test scores by forcing thousands of students at struggling schools to take STAAR exams a year later than ...

The 2025 STAAR results are in. Here's how to check your child's scores The TEA released testing results for grades 3-8, with reading and language arts scores surpassing pre-pandemic levels.

Dallas ISD shows promising STAAR test results with reading and math score gains, yet Superintendent Elizalde says more improvement is underway.

Spring 2025 STAAR test results show gains in reading, struggles with math Reading scores have surpassed pre-pandemic levels while math scores for third through eighth grade students are still ...