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The official logo of the TAKS test. Mainly based on the TAAS test's logo. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) was the fourth Texas state standardized test previously used in grade 3-8 and grade 9-11 to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards. [1]
Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
The TAAS, or Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, was the third standardized test used in Texas between 1991 and 2002, when it was replaced by the TAKS test from 2003 to 2013. [1] It was used from grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. Passing the Grade 11 level was required for graduation, but many opportunities for retesting were available.
With the failure of HB 3329, Oklahoma schools won’t be required to provide free menstrual products in middle and high school bathrooms. The bill passed the state House but never made it out of ...
Feb. 1—The state House of Representatives on Thursday passed high school graduation reform legislation, known as House Bill 171, sending the measure to the Senate side of the Roundhouse. While ...
Alabama requires the Stanford Achievement Test Series; and in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Assessment. That state has discontinued its usage of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. Since the 2007–08 school year, Kentucky has required that all students at public high schools take the ACT in their junior year. Some school districts in ...
Just days after House Bill 171 cleared the second chamber of the Roundhouse, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed it on Friday, codifying New Mexico's new graduation requirements for high schoolers ...
The STAAR Redesign was the result of House Bill (HB) 3906 passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019. In the school years before the 2021-2022 school year, schools would take the STAAR test on paper sheets, but the redesigned model would put an end to it by turning it into a computer-based system.