F accountability ratings from the Texas Education Agency last month, showing every district in North Texas dropped in scores ...

Tomball, Devers, Barber's Hill and Friendswood are the only A rated districts in Houston. Here's how one district kept their ...

Plans to improve three state-rated "F" schools spark concerns over the historic east-west divide within Austin district ...

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The TEA told the state it could take over managing the school district or close one school that has failed five consecutive years.

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.

With less than three weeks remaining in the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers are working on competing bills aimed at eliminating the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, ...

House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages.

The state’s standardized test would be replaced with three smaller tests taken throughout the school year through House Bill ...

STAAR and the A-F system are the results of changes to education that then-Gov. George W. Bush ushered through the Texas ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would abolish the STAAR test. The STAAR test is a ...

State Rep. Brad Buckley, a Republican from Salado, said the lengthy tests don’t accurately measure knowledge and place too ...