Yahoo

Did Texas lawmakers eliminate the STAAR test? What will replace it?

After more than a decade of Texas students sitting for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR tests, the standardized test is slated to be scrapped. In September, Gov. Greg ...
The Texas Tribune

House Democrats’ frustration with STAAR bill highlights divide over how new test should look

The full TribFest program is now LIVE. TribFest 2025 is presented by JPMorganChase Democrats say recent changes to the bill give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the ...
Yahoo

Fort Worth ISD takeover was largely based on STAAR test, despite plans to replace it

The STAAR test has been broadly criticized and is set to be replaced in the 2027-28 school year, raising questions about using it as a measure of student performance — and as the basis for state ...
KSAT

Texas is officially replacing STAAR. Here is what schools’ new standardized tests will look like.

A bill that would replace STAAR, the state's standardized test, with three shorter tests is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. (Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune, Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune) Sign up ...
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Overhauling STAAR test is back on the table this special session. But the clock is ticking.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This special session, Texas lawmakers ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

Here’s what Texas families need to know about STAAR test changes

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes standardized test each ...
The Austin Chronicle

Bill Eliminating STAAR Doesn’t Eliminate STAAR, Advocates Say

It feels like Texas Republicans want to claim they eliminated the STAAR test, public school advocates say, but without actually getting rid of it. On Tuesday, the state’s dominant party passed a bill ...
KTXS

Abilene ISD superintendent criticizes STAAR test for prioritizing politics over education

ABILENE, Texas — Students across Texas in elementary and high school spend the entire school year getting ready to take the STAAR test. The STAAR test is an assessment designed to make sure Texas ...
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Texas lawmakers could scrap the STAAR test. But what would replace it?

As the regular legislative session drew to a close last month, a proposal to scrap Texas' state test died when lawmakers couldn't agree about what to replace it with. But lawmakers could get a second ...
KSAT

Fort Worth ISD takeover was largely based on STAAR test, despite plans to replace it

A stabbing was reported on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in the 1500 block of Vera Cruz Street, near South Trinity Street. Read full article: Man found with multiple stab wounds on West Side; Police detain ...