Mary Lynn Pruneda, Director of Education and Workforce Policy
This special session, lawmakers have a chance to do what they nearly accomplished just weeks ago: eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, better known as the STAAR test, and replace it with something better, shorter and more frequent to allow more opportunity for instruction and make it more useful for students, parents…
It’s open season on the STAAR test and understandably so. Texans are right to expect better assessments that support students, inform instruction and don’t cause undue stress. But let’s be very clear: the solution isn’t to replace STAAR with a test that tells us less about what our kids are actually learning. Unfortunately, that’s exactly…
While Texas is home to some of the largest cities in the country, it is also home to a large rural population. More Texans live in rural areas (over 4.7 million) than in rural areas of any other state. That includes an estimated 900,000 K-12 students — the most of any state in the nation….
Today, the Texas Education Agency released its 2023 Grades 3-8 STAAR results. The following media statement is by Texas 2036 Senior Policy Advisor Mary Lynn Pruneda. The latest 3rd through 8th grade STAAR results show that Texas students and schools continue their progress in recovering from the impacts of the pandemic. Thanks to the hard…