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UPDATE: This story was updated Friday evening with comments from a Murphy administration official. New Jersey schools will begin using a new kind of “adaptive” statewide standardized test next spring ...

TULSA, Okla. — Local teachers unions responded to the recent mandate made by State Superintendent Ryan Walters claiming he's putting an end to end-of-year state testing. FOX23 reported on Friday when ...

Corrected: A previous version of this article misstated the consequences for low-performing schools related to state and federally required testing. Students in one Arizona district will take fewer ...

When they voted to end the STAAR test, lawmakers said they wanted to reduce the amount of time students spend taking tests.

FOX23 reached out to several school districts across the Tulsa metro to see if they have received any new guidance or instructions about changes to state testing since Walters made his announcement.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Even though the state ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Education officials in Illinois expect to see a significant increase this year in the percentage of students classified as proficient in reading, writing and math, along with a slight ...