Texas’ first special session of 2025 starts Monday, during which state lawmakers will consider new congressional maps approve ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Texas Legislature will consider 18 agenda items when the special session begins on July 21, including relief funding for ...