Kyron Birdine, a high school junior in Arlington, Texas, didn't see much point to taking an extra standardized test that wouldn't be used to evaluate him in any way. Kyron will graduate from high ...

Apparently, “YOLO” is still a thing. The acronym for a You Only Live Once got a Texas high school student suspended when he wrote it on an exam and tweeted the evidence to friends and school ...

In Texas, high school students must take the official State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STARR) exam in order to measure the student's knowledge of curriculum standards. Students take ...

ARLINGTON, Texas Kyron Birdine, a junior at Arlington High School, came home with a lesson he won't soon forget: Don't mess with the STAAR test. I was being a high school kid getting on Twitter, he ...

Talk about sticking it to the man. Kyron Birdline, a high school student from Arlington, Texas, was recently suspended for sending a tweet to his local school district and the Texas Education Agency.