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Are The STAAR Tests Too Hard? Critics Rally For A Closer Look.

KWBU | By Camille Phillips

Published April 9, 2019 at 5:44 PM CDT

Wes Scalf, 13, speaks to his mom, Lisa Scalf, in their home in February 2019.

“To hear that they were testing at two to three grade levels above the grade level they should have been testing at was surprising, and really just made me angry.”

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Camille Phillips

Camille Phillips covers education for Texas Public Radio.

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