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 ...

The chambers differ on how much power districts should have to push back in courts over their accountability ratings. They ...

For example, I’ve long supported switching ... Finally, these new assessments would be norm-referenced, meaning students would be measured in comparison to how their peers are doing across ...

It would replace STAAR with a nationally norm-referenced progress monitoring system more closely aligned with state standards over the course of the year. This allows us to track how much a ...

Norm’s Pizza and Eatery in Wilkes-Barre formally announced its closure, set for May 17, in a Facebook post on Sunday. “It is with a mix of gratitude and heavy hearts that we officially ...

House Bill 4 would eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ... HB 4 would create a nationally norm-referenced test — comparing students' performance to one another rather ...

Nationally norm-referenced assessments compare students scores to other scores ... Howard cited the funding cuts to public education during a recession in 2011 as an example of what could happen to ...

Nationally norm-referenced assessments compare students scores ... cuts to public education during a recession in 2011 as an example of what could happen to schools in a downturn.