A new report says state education officials want all students in Texas public schools to take state-required standardized tests online by 2022. The report from the Texas Education Agency says the digital upgrade will cost school districts an initial outlay of about four-million-dollars for improved Internet connectivity. Afterwards, the districts would have to spend more than 13-million-dollars a year for added bandwidth and staff training. The report says the upgrades will enable almost all students to take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR tests, online by the school year starting in 2022.
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