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Parents won’t get them for some time but school districts got their first look at some state test scores Wednesday. These are the Texas Education Agency’s first set of numbers in what’s expected to be a confusing year of measuring school progress. Education Reporter Wayne Carter tells us why.

Texas educators say they’re not buying into alarming headlines over a downtick in national ACT test scores.

A school in DeSoto is coming up with creative ways to help ease the pressure some students feel when taking the STAAR test.

The White House says the federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday

The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected.

Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans.

Walmart and Kroger raised the price of Abbott’s at-home COVID-19 test kit after an agreement with the White House to sell the tests at a reduced price expired.

As the highly infectious omicron variant spreads around the country, some North Texans spent New Years Day waiting in cars at testing sites like at Tarrant County College’s Northeast campus.

As the highly infectious omicron variant spreads around the country, some North Texans spent New Years Day waiting in cars at testing sites like at Tarrant County College’s Northeast campus.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home

President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for the holidays

Public health officials worry about a coming strain on COVID testing infrastructure, which could create lines at testing sites and longer wait times for results.