Texas lawmakers are making another push to get rid of the STAAR test — a plan that died during the regular legislative session earlier this year.

Senate Bill 8 and House Bill 8 , filed Monday, would scrap the state’s long-used standardized test for public schools and introduce three shorter tests throughout the school year, with results delivered within 48 hours. The identical bills were filed by Republican Sen. Paul Bettencourt of Houston and Rep. Brad Buckley of Salado.

According to Buckley, chair of the House Public Education Committee, the goal is to shift the focus “away from teaching to a test and back to real learning in the classroom.”

“We begin the process of eliminating the STAAR test and replacing it with meaningful, student-centered assessments that are instructionally ac

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