Parents from around Texas including one from the Orangefield School District have filed a lawsuit in Austin looking to throw out the results of this year’s STAAR test scores.  The lawsuit claims the test is too long and has caused harm to thousands of students, teachers, and schools in the state of Texas.

Jennifer Rumsey has been a teacher in the Orangefield School District for over 17 years and has joined the group suing to have the test scores thrown out.  Rumsey said her daughter took two tests each taking four hours to complete.

Attorney Scott Placek representing the parents in the lawsuit said the House bill passed last year which initiated the STAAR test stated 85 percent of the students should be able to complete the test in less than two hours.  Placek added that studies done by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) showed that 85 percent of students needed 2 hours or more to complete the test this year.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of problems giving the STAAR test this year including computer glitches that lost test answers and students being given the wrong test.  The Texas Education Agency has already tossed out test scores for over 14,000 students because of computer glitches when they took the test in March.