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The Texas House voted to advance House Bill 8, the STAAR test replacement bill, to the Senate on Tuesday. HB 8 would end the current form of the end-of-year STAAR test and replace it with three ...

A bill to replace the controversial State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test in Texas schools is just one step away from becoming law. Families and educators, however, are split ...

TEXAS, USA — Texas public school administrators, parents and education experts worry that a new law to replace the state's standardized test could potentially increase student stress and the amount of ...