By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune

Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate introduced Monday similar bills to scrap the state’s standardized test, signaling newfound agreement between chamber leaders to finish a task they left incomplete earlier this year.

This year’s special legislative session is legislators’ second chance to revamp the test after negotiations between chambers on STAAR broke down in the final hours of the regular session.

It’s unclear if they have the time or will to succeed. Senators will hear public testimony on the proposal at a Wednesday hearing. But the proposal — like every other bill under consideration during the special session — is in limbo in the lower chambers after Texas House Democrats fled the state over redistricting, depriving the chamber of the number o

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