In addition to passing the reading test, fifth grade students will also have to pass the TAKS math test in order to be promoted to grade 6. They will take the math TAKS on April 5. Fifth-grade ...

In most cases, they get stuck on just one section, usually math or science. An excuse Nearly two thirds of seniors who retook their TAKS in March 2009 failed. Manning may have had a better excuse ...

The students, including several of the Dallas school's football players, were trying to pass a TAKS math exit exam during ... Linnear didn't provide a required chart of where the students sat ...