LUMBERTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The TEA is apologizing after the F-word was spotted on STAAR tests administered to some fifth-grade students. Lumberton ISD officials say a student at Lumberton Intermediate ...

The days of making sure your pencil marks stay neatly within the lines are over. This year, almost all Texas students will exercise their skills on the STAAR Test online, according to the Texas ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

Most of Texas' more than five million public school students will start their State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams this week. Taken by students from third grade to high school, the ...

/ Texas Education Agency Texas elementary and middle school students made gains in reading this year, prompting education leaders to celebrate the scores as a sign that the state’s focus on literacy ...

Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate introduced Monday similar bills to scrap the state’s standardized test, signaling newfound agreement between chamber leaders to finish a task they left ...

SAN ANTONIO – Results released by the Texas Education Agency on Tuesday show State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores have seen improvements this year, even as San Antonio-area ...

Julia Falcon is a digital content producer at CBS News Texas. Julia has previously written for news outlets across Dallas-Fort Worth like the Denton Record-Chronicle, D Magazine, 1080 KRLD and 105.3 ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - East Texas public school students can expect a change in state testing in the coming years. The STAAR test at the end of the year will be replaced with three new shorter tests ...