The House, which differs with senators on districts’ power to sue over their A-F ratings, must now decide whether to ...

The lower chamber must now decide whether to approve the Senate amendments or continue negotiations as the legislative ...

What's the future of the STAAR test? There's a bill to scrap it, but the clock is ticking until the end of the legislative session.

A Senate panel Friday unveiled its rewrite of the House bill that would scrap STAAR, the state standardized test widely ...

House Bill 4 would swap the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ... their peers around the country in what is called a “norm-referenced test.” Proponents of this kind of test ...

House Bill 4 would swap the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ... their peers around the country in what is called a “norm-referenced test.” Proponents of this kind of test ...

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And for season after season on “Cheers,” some of the best of those were delivered by George Wendt, who died on Tuesday at age 76, as the long-suffering Norm Peterson. We knew him, above all ...