AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- The grade promotion requirement related to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test for 5th and 8th grade students has been waived for the upcoming ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

Superintendent Mike Miles with Board Member Angela Lemond Flowers at a recent school board meeting. Credit: Photo by Violeta Alvarez With only two exceptions, a higher percentage of Houston ISD ...

As Texas school districts wind down at the end of the year, students across the state are undergoing state testing that is reportedly being conducted using a new grading method. According to the Texas ...

Most of Texas' more than five million public school students will start their State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams this week. Taken by students from third grade to high school, the ...

Frustration over the way Texas uses computers to grade students’ essays on the STAAR test is building after Dallas ISD officials again saw more than one-third of the exams they submitted for review ...

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s standardized tests will be graded automatically by ...

HOUSTON — Changes are coming to the way STAAR tests are graded in the state of Texas. In 2023, the Texas Education Agency announced they would use Artificial Intelligence, or AI, to grade the essay ...