STAAR testing commences, UISD urges students to complete missing tests
May 5, 2021
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UISD discussed the importance of completing STAAR exams on Tuesday.LMT staff file
UISD’s Executive Director for High School Education Dolores Barrera provided an update on STAAR testing for high school students during a Facebook Live event on Tuesday, the same day as the start of testing with the Algebra 1 and U.S. history exams. On Wednesday the biology exam will take place, with United South splitting the day into Thursday.
Barrera stressed that students who did not complete the STAAR exams at the end of the fall semester will need to take it this time around as they are graduation requirements. High school students are required to take five end-of-course tests, mandated by the state, in order to graduate. These include English 1, English 2, Algebra, Bio and U.S. History, all of which are split throughout the school years.