(CBS News Texas) - Texas lawmakers are set to vote on two bills on Tuesday that could end STAAR testing. The bills that would scrap the test are up for a vote in both the Texas House and Texas Senate.

Students attend a math and reading workshop at a STAAR summer camp held at Dobie Middle School on July 23, 2025. Texas lawmakers will try again to revamp the state’s standardized test during this year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students attend a math and reading workshop at a STAAR summer camp held at Dobie Middle School on July 23, 2025. Texas lawmakers ...

Former Houston ISD teacher and Community Voices for Public Education co-founder Ruth Kravetz speaks about a STAAR test boycott in front of the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center on Monday, ...

HISD students are getting a crucial two-week break before heading into a spring semester packed with key STAAR testing and college entrance exams. This year's schedule includes key testing dates, ...

A bill to replace the STAAR test failed to pass the Texas legislature The House and Senate could not agree on key differences. The Texas State Teachers Association opposed the Senate's version, ...

Teachers around the state are singing, “Ding, dong, the test is dead.” The test in question is, of course, the problematic Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test (TAKS), and while it’s not ...

Students at Lone Star High School in Frisco wrote English essays during a practice test in February 2011. Frisco ISD gave most of its STAAR tests online, but a tech glitch bogged down the system and ...

DALLAS — The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Wednesday night. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — As the STAAR test season is winding down, districts across the state have been preparing our students to perform well. "We've got students across the district taking their math ...

Why does this test dominate so much space in and out of the classroom? The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, better known as the STAAR test, looms large over education in Texas. Kids ...