Hinojosa Slams STAAR Tests, Abbott's Space Push

0:00It's April 9th. This is El Paso News today, your AI-powered local news. Texas kids are hitting the books hard this week for the big star tests, taken by millions in public schools. Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Gina Hinojosa, is calling it out big time. Saying the exams are flawed and high stakes, wasting cash on out-of-state, companies while putting schools at risk. Since Governor Abbott took office in 2015, the Texas Education Agency has dropped over $1,700,000 on. Star vendors, including nearly 468 million to cambium assessment, and 160 million to Pearson last year. These tests decide A.F. grays for campuses, which can lead to closures or full-stay takeovers, like what's already hit districts in Fort Worth, and Houston, with San Antonio next in line. Hinojosa blasts it as a rigged set of favoring vouchers and profiteers over kids, pointing out Abbott promised to scrap star, but jacked up required.

1:00Test from 15 to 51 by the end of middle school. Meanwhile, Abbott's out there hyping Texas Space Game on Fox Business, name-driving SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Firefly Aerospace in Austin amid the Artemis 2 splashdown. With the Governor's race heating up, registered to vote by October 5th, early voting runs October 19th to 30th, and it's all culminating on. Action Day, November 3rd.