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Senate adopts major accountability overhaul, votes to replace STAAR with three‑part testing system
Summary
House Bill 8 passed the Texas Senate on Aug. 27 after a floor amendment restored social studies and history testing and the body approved a plan to replace STAAR with three shorter assessments tied to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
The Texas Senate on Aug. 27 passed House Bill 8, a wide‑ranging education accountability and testing bill that replaces the current STAAR test with a three‑assessment model and restores social studies and history testing to the state accountability system. The Senate adopted a floor amendment restoring social studies and history tests and then approved final passage; roll calls on the amendment and on final passage were recorded in the transcript.
Senator Bettencourt, the bill sponsor on the floor, described the measure as replacing STAAR with “three shorter…
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