STAAR tests in fifth- and eighth-grade reading and math are normally given in April, allowing for two retesting periods in May and June for students who missed or failed the tests. The news ...

Texas students will still have to take the STAAR ... grade, or else they must retake it later that year or over the summer. But Abbott said that next spring, the fifth and eighth grade math ...

Commissioner Williams originally wrote to Texas superintendents in February regarding the required use of graphing calculators for the STAAR grade 8 mathematics assessment. Beginning in the 2014–2015 ...

Reflecting a statewide trend, third through eighth grade students in the Austin Independent School District are struggling in mathematics ... redesigned the STAAR and implemented the new version ...

These students will be given the opportunity to enroll in an advanced math course in sixth grade, putting them on track to take Algebra I in eighth grade. STAAR results also have implications for ...

AUSTIN - Students will not be held accountable for the math portion of the STAAR test this year ... Students in 3rd through 8th grade are being affected but school and TEA officials say that ...

Over the past two weeks the Texas Education Agency has released this year’s STAAR ... 3rd grade Reading Language Arts and Math 7th grade Reading Language Arts and Math 8th Grade Math Biology ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- The grade promotion requirement related ... there will only be one administration of the STAAR test in grades 5 and 8 mathematics and reading assessments for the 2020-21 ...