Testing furor prompts political leaders to back STAAR reform

American-Statesman Thursday 29th November, 2012

Critics of Texas’ standardized testing law scored a key victory Thursday as the Senate’s new education chief announced legislation that could diminish — if not eliminate — the effect of the end-of-course exams on a student’s final grade.A requirement that the state exams count toward 15 percent of a student’s course grade sparked a backlash last spring over the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, ...

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