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 impacted the majority of districts administering the tests online. The five-hour STAAR test was abruptly brought to a halt at Nacogdoches High School. The announcement to suspend testing for the day came around noon.