School districts experience glitches with STAAR test

across the state of texas. more than 14-thousand staar tests were affected by computer problems… –forcing some schools to re-test students. the question remains… which students will be affected? abc-7’s josie ortegon is live … rick, estela. some students found their answers erased. the school districts retested students on a case-by-case basis. but there are still a lot of questions that remain about what will happen next: “students are under stress, under pressure.’ burges high school parent rene rosales says he’s disappointed to hear about the testing hurdles. “especiall those seniors, where they just have to think about college and now they have to take a step back as far as taking the star test and then go from there.” gfx at leas four school districts in el paso reported problems. 6-8 episd campuses. yisd confirms they expereinced glitches, but are still trying to figure out how many. 20 students at socorro isd were affected, 11 at clint isd and none and san elizario isd. martinez sot–“testing is stressfu enough on students and then have problems when you’re trying to take the exam itself.” episd spokeswoman melissa martinez says students had problems logging into their account, or logged off then logged back on to find their answers erased. testing coordinators were immediately notified–and students wre re- tested on a case-by case basis. martinez says there could be more in the coming weeks. stand-up “at this point, school districts really don’t know exactly how many students were impacted. the tea will release a report breaking down the exact numbers. until then, it’s really just a waiting game.” “we don’t kno how it might affect scores, or if it will at all, beaause we don’t know how many students it affected at this point.” th tea switched testing vendors for the first time in decades but it’s still unlcear what exactly caused the glitch and expect the problem to be fixed soon: “th vendor for the test believes they caught all the problems, but it’s a wait and see to see what’s happening, we expect that they be fixed by the next testing. “we don’t know how i might affect scores, or if it will at all, beaause we don’t know how many students it affected at this point.” like flynn mentioned, he still has more hurdles ahead of him. after union is over tonight. surveillance video from last tuesday the search for a man who allegedly