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

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 ...

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The decades-long beef between music executives Suge Knight and Sean "Diddy" Combs has returned to the spotlight due to Diddy’s recent criminal trial. Cassie Ventura, a singer, model, and Diddy's ...

Under the new system, teachers would have results in just 24 hours. The new system would use norm-referenced testing, which means scores would show how Texas students compare to kids across the ...

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Who could forget the images that went viral last year of a cruise ship’s stern looking like a top-heavy birthday cake? So colorful and cartoon-like were the decks layered with twisting ...

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 ...