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The Texas Education Agency Student Assessment Division announced Tuesday connectivity issues during the first day on the STAAR Online Testing Platform which affected fourth grade writing, seventh grade writing and English I exams. Locally, Graham ISD was also impacted by the outages which occurred statewide and could resume testing those exams Tuesday. TEA posted updates to the STAAR Assessment Management System dashboard Tuesday every 10 minutes to keep districts on top of progress to resolve ...

Technical issues halt STAAR testing for thousands, impacting local students Jenni Lee Replay Video UP NEXT Technical issues canceled STAAR, or State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, testing for thousands of students across the state on Tuesday. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) said connectivity issues caused the disruptions on day one of the five-day testing period. The problems only affected students taking the online version of STAAR, students like Susan Breedloves ...

Nacogdoches High School one of many schools to dismiss online STAAR testing until Wednesday Many Texas school districts are administering the STAAR tests online for the first time this year. Credit: Erich Schlegel for USA Today Network via REUTERS (Source: Texas Tribune) By Donna McCollum | April 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 8:14 PM Widespread technical issues across the state shut down Tuesday morning’s online STAAR testing for thousands of students. The outages impact...

Connectivity issues cause some Texas school districts to cancel online STAAR testing Many Texas school districts are administering the STAAR tests online for the first time this year. Credit: Erich Schlegel for USA Today Network via REUTERS (Source: Texas Tribune) By Gary Bass | April 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 2:40 PM TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Some Texas school districts have been experiencing connectivity issues as their students take online versions of the Texas Assessme...

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD released a statement to parents Monday. "We have been made aware of a systemwide outage of the Educational Testing System, which administers STAAR. According to the company, We are still investigating the reports of issues with the STAAR Online Testing Platform. We will send notice of a resolution as soon as possible. Students experiencing issues with completing their essay using speech-to-text can continue to respond to multiple-choice items." All schools are expecte...

Both districts say the issues primarily are impacting older students at this time. Author: NewsWest 9 Updated: 5:42 PM CDT April 6, 2021 MIDLAND, Texas — School districts in Texas have been reporting issues with the online STAAR tests Tuesday. According to the TEA, the main three tests impacted were the Grade 4 writing, Grade 7 writing and English I. Issues students were encountering included slow response times, the inability to log in to the test or not being...

Statewide outage impacting online portion of STAAR exams, TEA says Doug Delony, Melissa Correa Replay Video UP NEXT Multiple school districts statewide are having trouble administering the STAAR exam on Tuesday due to an online service outage. Note: the video in this story is about STAAR testing and changes in place for this year Some districts sent an email to parents and others posted to social media informing the public about the problems with the online system. Houston ISD ...

Schools Across Texas Suspend Online STAAR Testing After Continued Technical Difficulties Syndicated Local – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) — So many school districts across the state experienced technical difficulties while trying access or complete the online STAAR exam that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has advised schools to suspend testing for April 6. Tuesday was the first day of testing. This year the STAAR test is being administered on paper, onli...

TEA on STAAR Test problems: ‘What happened today is completely unacceptable’ Many educators have been working hard all year to prepare students for the STAAR test. (Source: KFDA) By KCBD Staff | April 6, 2021 at 12:25 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 4:09 PM LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - On the first day of the STAAR test for fourth and seventh graders in Texas, the online testing platform experienced connectivity issues and caused the students to stop testing for the day. This was the fi...