(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a Texas fifth-grader taking the STAAR Test? As another new school year begins, it’s never a ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — 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 ...

president of the nonprofit Reading League of Texas, presented finalized scores from the most recent STAAR exam. Across the ...

STAAR tests have been used to measure student achievement for four years. The performance standards were scheduled to be moved up two years ago, but Williams has been holding them down. The Texas ...

HISD remained behind the national average and fell back in elementary reading scores but improved in most MAP score ...

He also believes that using the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), the state’s standardized test, as a graduation requirement is ineffective and harmful to students ...

AISD Superintendent Matt Smith entered his role in January. Trustees will now evaluate how he’s met the district’s needs to ...

This election season, our editorial board invited candidates in 39 state and local races to interview with us. We sat down with dozens of them and offer you our recommendations below. For our ...

Former DeSoto ISD trustee Tiffany Clark is running unopposed to replace Aicha Davis, who stepped down to run for a Texas House seat.

Tragically for Texas families, this gang consistently prioritizes the ... Parents, students and their teachers would be ...

Last week, the Greenville campus of Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy announced that it had received a letter grade of an A ...