Educators share testing concerns with Senate Education committee

Date Posted: 4/15/2014
The Senate Education Committee met yesterday in an interim hearing to review two charges:
- The high school English Language Arts and STAAR Alternate testing requirements.
- The implementation of House Bill (HB) 5.

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