The new Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills -- or TAKS -- may be a year away, but testing has already started for some students. Statewide, about 227,000 fourth- and seventh-grade students will ...

GARLAND (CBSDFW.COM) - There's some concern by school administrators over the new STAAR tests that will be replacing the TAKS test this year. Some school officials worry with so many standardized ...

After being the determinant used to gauge student comprehension since 2003, the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test will soon be replaced. Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, ...

The Houston School Board meets to start discussing a resolution asking the state Legislature to do away with the TAKS standardized test, and replace it with “end of course exams” in core subject areas ...

In the Harlandale ISD, we believe the primary focus is to provide all children in our community the opportunity to develop their mental, moral and physical capabilities to their maximum potential.

Fourth-grade students Tyler Collins, 10, and Gabriel Smith, 9, want to pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills because they want to be the principal of Mae Stevens Elementary School for a ...

The Nederland Independent School District will administer the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test to students who have not mastered the exit level test on July 15 (English/LA), July ...

SHALLOWATER, TX (KCBD) - The Shallowater Independent School District has discovered TAKS testing irregularities may have occurred during the last administration of the tests. The possible testing ...

Students throughout area school districts were taking TAKS tests last week. This spring will mark the beginning of the end of the TAKS testing in public schools. Beginning with the 2011-2012 school ...

A hazmat team enters Armstrong Elementary, the second Garland ISD school to discover an envelope containing a powder substance. The FBI doesn't believe the incidents were a prank to delay TAKS testing ...

Two investigations by the Texas Education Agency in two years of possible TAKS testing fraud in the Mart Independent School District — at the high school and middle school — have left more questions ...