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STAAR Testing Difficulties Hit San Angelo ISD Students   SAN ANGELO, TX – Fourth grade students at San Angelo ISD experienced technical difficulties today during their STAAR writing test.  The following is the statement from SAISD: Earlier today, San Angelo ISD was notified of a system-wide outage of the Educational Testing System, which administers STAAR. Due to the ongoing technical issues with the testing system, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has halted online testing today for fourth-grade writing, across Texas. Students that took a paper based test were able to continue and finish...

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 expected to go online for testing this May. The Fort Worth ISD issued the following statement Tuesday. "E...