Texas News Testing Firm Earns Fine For Glitches During The Online STAAR Test KWBU | By Texas Standard Published May 25, 2018 at 7:17 AM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:11 Christopher Hopper/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) For the second time, the online version of the test given to fifth and eighth-graders experienced glitches that forced TEA to cancel the exam for students who took it online.