NEXSTAR – Texas lawmakers in the House of Representatives gave final approval of a plan to eliminate Texas State Reconstruction Reconstruction (Staar) and replace them with a series of shorter tests. Members of the House of Representatives agreed to the amendments made to the Senate, which wipes the way for the draft law to move to the office of the ruler Greg Abbott.
The bill has passed 79 – 47 along the party lines. Republicans say that the shift to the shorter and more likely tests with faster results will provide a better way to measure the progress of students. Democrats raised fears that more tests add tension to students.
“We are about to pass a draft law more than three times, in fact, it links the amount of tests that the state does not require for our children in public schools,” said Gina Hinjanjosa, D -Austin. Hinojosa, former Chairman of the Schools Board of Directors, was an explicit opponent of HB 8.
Supporters of the bill argue that it will reduce the amount of stress that students feel when testing in one day. “This draft law provides a meaningful change,” said the deputy of the state, Brad Bakli, R Salado. Most educational areas are already some similar tests using private sellers. This new system will give them the option to use a test by the state.
What is the plan?
This is a look at what Home Law Bill 8 He will do:
- Call a curtain test.
- The Staar test will remain valid for the next two academic years.
- Star is replaced by a series of exams.
- There will be three tests. One in the beginning, medium and the end of the school year that will not start until the academic year 2027-2028. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is responsible for conducting tests.
- Adaptive tests.
- Tests for change will be designed depending on how each student answers questions. Questions are designed to raise and reduce two levels of grades to find out the student’s performance. The results will be returned in 48 hours.
- The Consultation Committee is determined
- Tea is recommended for any changing or adjustments of the standards.
- An additional standard test prohibits
- Educational areas will not be allowed to give their students a test that would prepare them for the end of the year exam.
The legislative body tried to address this issue during the regular session earlier in the year. The Bill 4 House 4 was approximately outside the home with a similar plan for HB 8. Hinojosa, the three test system in HB 4, will be created, a national seller will be created, instead of the test created by tea, which makes the Staar test currently.
“The way in which confidence is that there is an external seller that creates the test, not tea,” said Hinoogusa last month during his controversy against the bill.
Bakli said that the educational areas have an option to use a test from a national seller for tests at the beginning of the year and the average year, but everyone must take a test at the end of the year that was issued to the state. If the educational area uses the test of the three -state manufacture, it will not cost them anything.
The results of the tests are partially determined by the final school area it receives from the state. In the current accountability system, tea uses the results of the Staar test and academic growth from year to year to help identify classroom messages for schools. Bakli said that the state will now get data on how individual students from the beginning of the school year advance to the end.
“We will measure growth from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, which has not been done before in Texas,” said Bakli. “This is a way we get a better achievement and prevent conservatives from educational areas.”
Senator Paul Betinkurt, p – Houston, HB 8, in the Senate. He praised the final passage of the legislation on Wednesday night, and reached how to restore annual public school accountability classifications.
“What is measured is repaired,” Betnicort wrote in a press release after HB 8 has passed. “HB 8 measures what matters, the student’s success.”