AUSTIN, TEXAS -- New legislation could do away with the TAKS test in the state of Texas.
Students may no longer have high stakes testing, and teachers may no longer be required to teach to the Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills test.
At the state Capitol Thursday, the House and Senate Education Committees agreed that a student's performance throughout the entire school year should weigh greater than a single test.
"If you are showing progress and inching toward it, and showing that you are on a trajectory and will have passed it in the next year or two, that's going to count," said Representative Rob Eissler from The Woodlands.
Last year, Rep. Eissler held a town hall meeting in Brownsville to get feedback from valley teachers, parents and students.
If passed in the legislature, the new accountability system will start in 2011.
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