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Senate approves SB8 to replace STAAR with three-part assessment and restore AF releases; sponsors call it "transformative"
Summary
Committee Substitute SB 8 passed the Senate after amendments. The bill replaces the single end-of-year STAAR test with three assessments (beginning-, mid-, and end-of-year), requires annual AF releases, and creates an accountability refresh process and local-accountability grant panel.
The Senate passed SB 8, a comprehensive rewrite of school accountability that replaces the current single end-of-year STAAR test with a three-assessment model and codifies annual release of AF accountability ratings.
"What gets measured gets fixed," sponsor Senator Bettencourt told the Senate when she explained the bill's aim to create diagnostic assessments that inform instruction and free up classroom time that is currently devoted to preparing for the single end-of-year exam. The bill calls for a short, adaptive beginning-of-year assessment, an adaptive mid-year assessment that returns results within 48 hours for classroom…
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