Tag Archives: testing and accountability
El Paso ISD-Style Cheating Concerns Spread to More Border School Districts
Former El Paso ISD Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia is still in federal prison, but the cheating scandal he began is still rippling through school districts on the...Read More
Perry Signs Bill Cutting School Testing, Ending Veto Speculation
House Bill 5, Perry said, "strikes an appropriate balance between our need for rigorous academic standards and the student's need for flexibility, a balance bet...Read More
Legislature Passes Major Testing Reform and Charter School Bills
Late on the session's next-to-last day, the House passed the session's two biggest education bills, expanding charter schools and cutting high school testing....Read More
Committee Considers Reducing Elementary, Middle School Testing
The Senate Education Committee took up a proposal to eliminate the STAAR writing test for 4th and 7th graders as well. Lawmakers also hinted at an interim study...Read More
Senate Passes Bill Cutting High School Tests, Creating New Diploma Paths
After a delay Friday, the Senate finally passed House Bill 5, the session's big education bill limiting state testing in high school and altering high school gr...Read More
Dan Patrick Defends Plan to Scale Back Testing
After getting overwhelming approval from the House—and then sitting for a few weeks—a bill bringing big changes to Texas' testing and graduation requirement...Read More
House Approves Major Bill Cutting Testing, Adding Career Focus to Degree Plans
After hearing more than 100 amendments, only Rep. Mark Strama (Austin-D) and Rep. Naomi Gonzalez (El Paso-D) voted against HB 5. ...Read More
Debate on School Testing Bill Heats Up Over College Readiness
After a lengthy debate, lawmakers may have settled the most divisive question facing them in today's school testing bill debate: whether high school students sh...Read More
Deshotel Bill Would Scrap Testing As Graduation Requirement
House Bill 1423 would lower the stakes of the STAAR test, by removing the requirement, on the books since 1994, that students pass state exams to graduate. Desh...Read More