House Bill 4 would have replaced the STAAR test with three shorter exams and tweaked the state’s A-F accountability system.

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 ...

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 ...

The new system would use norm-referenced testing, which means scores would show ... Some school districts have even sued the TEA in recent years, saying the grading changes were unfair or rolled out ...

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 ...

Kansas basketball assistant coach Norm Roberts announced his retirement after a successful run with the Jayhawks. Roberts was part of the coaching staff during Kansas’ 2022 national championship ...

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 ...

According to the Employment Standards decision, that included grading produce based on its ... no criteria for what that looks like. And the norm is overcrowded, not clean, not private, not ...

HB 4 would create a nationally norm-referenced test — comparing students' performance to one another rather than to a standard — and creates benchmark tests to measure academic growth ...