What's Going On With STAAR Testing This Year? Here's What We Know Right Now.
KUT Students sit separated with masks on during a class at Boone Elementary School in South Austin. A few children attend school in person, while their classmates participate via Zoom from home. Meagan Campos’ eldest child is a third-grader at Boone Elementary in the Austin Independent School District. This is the first year Charlotte will be required to take the state assessment, or STAAR, test. How that will happen during a pandemic is raising questions. Typically, students take the test during the course of the school day, with teachers acting as proctors. But Charlotte has been learnin...