AUSTIN (KXAN) — Math questions on the STAAR test continue to be under scrutiny, but no action was taken Wednesday by the State Board of Education. “This is their lives. This is so important to them.

When Michael Parker can bear the pain, he looks back. Through the shadows of memory, the 39-year-old sees himself as the bully who would hide his embarrassment at not being able to read with clenched ...