TEA's Director of Student Assessment, Jose Rios, told the Tribune the state hired around 2,000 human scorers this year, a ...

TEA would have needed between $15 million and $20 million to hire about 6,000 temporary test graders to score the tests in ...

This revelation comes as students across Plainview ISD schools performed well in other STAAR and end-of-course exam subject areas. Both third and fourth-grade ... and assessment, at the Sept.

STAAR is the widely criticized assessment instrument used to grade students ... especially in grades 3-8). At the same time, he implicitly acknowledged that the test is mandated by state law ...