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A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/22/529237/as-staar-test-overhaul-heads-for-a-house-vote-democrats-bemoan-concessions-to-the-senate/

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A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/22/529237/as-staar-test-overhaul-heads-for-a-house-vote-democrats-bemoan-concessions-to-the-senate/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #SpecialSession #Staar #STAARTest #STAARTesting #TexasLegislature

A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/22/529237/as-staar-test-overhaul-heads-for-a-house-vote-democrats-bemoan-concessions-to-the-senate/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #SpecialSession #Staar #STAARTest #STAARTesting #TexasLegislature

A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/22/529237/as-staar-test-overhaul-heads-for-a-house-vote-democrats-bemoan-concessions-to-the-senate/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #SpecialSession #Staar #STAARTest #STAARTesting #TexasLegislature

A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/22/529237/as-staar-test-overhaul-heads-for-a-house-vote-democrats-bemoan-concessions-to-the-senate/

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A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on students died in the last days of the legislative session.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/06/02/522791/bill-to-scrap-staar-test-dies-in-the-texas-legislature/

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While many of its peers and Texas schools as a whole saw declines in mathematics proficiency this year among elementary and middle school students, Houston ISD exhibited improvement.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2024/06/17/490904/houston-isd-elementary-middle-school-students-increasing-proficiency-in-math-amid-statewide-declines/

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STAAR testing statewide has kicked off this month and some parents in Houston ISD are choosing to allow their students to opt out of the state-mandated test.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2024/04/18/484056/as-staar-testing-is-underway-some-houston-isd-parents-are-opting-their-children-out/

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Before the changes, about 5% of students across the state scored a zero out of 8 on “constructed response” writing questions, which are similar to essay prompts. After the changes, 46% of fourth graders scored a zero out of 10 — 20% in seventh grade, and 25% in high school.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2024/02/29/479280/almost-half-of-texas-fourth-graders-scored-a-zero-on-the-staar-writing-composition-last-year-teachers-and-researchers-worry-while-the-tea-projects-confidence/

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