What standardized tests are Texas students required to take?

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

STAAR test overhaul nears Abbott’s desk with Texas Senate approval

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students attend a math and reading workshop at a STAAR summer camp held at Dobie Middle School on July 23, 2025. Texas lawmakers ...
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 ...
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 ...
Houston Public Media

As STAAR test overhaul heads for a House vote, Democrats bemoan concessions to the Senate

Students attend a math and reading workshop at a STAAR summer camp held at Dobie Middle School on July 23, 2025. Texas lawmakers will try again to revamp the state’s standardized test during this year ...
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 ...
The Texas Tribune

STAAR test overhaul nears Abbott’s desk with Texas Senate approval

Before House Bill 8 can go to the governor, the House must formally agree with changes from the Senate, which approved the proposal Wednesday night. Students attend a math and reading workshop at a ...
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 ...
Click2Houston

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

Read full article: Fort Bend County woman sounds alarm as crumbling dirt road plagues visitors to historic cemetery Read full article: Multiple northbound lanes of I-69 closed at Bissonnet due to ...