OLYMPIA — A state requirement that high school students pass a biology exam in order to graduate would be suspended under an agreement announced Thursday by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The deal, ...

The state Board of Education wants to delay a policy that will count into students’ final grades the end-of-course exam scores in biology and U.S. History. Mississippi requires public school students ...

Houston ISD students who "passed" the STAAR exam in biology surpassed state averages for the first time in 2025, notching what appeared to be a critical win for state-appointed Superintendent Mike ...