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

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

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

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

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

A looming redistricting fight, flood response, and THC are on the agenda. But don’t be surprised to see dead bills from the ...

Lawmakers representing Northeast Texas say they’ll support Hill Country flood relief, implementation of disaster warning ...

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

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

The statewide death toll from the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas earlier this month has risen to 135 and dozens more ...