Senator Cassidy Highlights Conservative Education Wins During National School Choice Week

Baton Rouge - It's National School Choice Week! And Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), has been one of the most outspoken leaders for school choice, highlighting his conservative record of expanding school choice, empowering parents, and delivering real education reform.

As Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Cassidy oversees federal education policy and has made parental rights and educational freedom a top priority. Today, Senator Cassidy held a HELP Committee hearing titled " Empowering Families Through Educational Choice in America," examining how school choice delivers results and expands opportunity.

Senator Cassidy's education accomplishments from the past decade include:

• Authored the Educational Choice for Children Act, the first federal school choice legislation in American history, included in President Donald J. Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.

• Long time champion of school choice, expanding education savings accounts, protecting charter schools, and ensuring education dollars follow students.

• Advanced K-12 reforms, releasing a child literacy report and leading the 21st Century Dyslexia Act to promote early screening.

• Called out the Biden administration for attacking parents who are engaged in their children's education and criticizing Republican efforts to expand school choice while speaking to a teachers' union.

• Led efforts that resulted in the disbanding of the far-left, anti-school choice "National Parents and Families Engagement Council" at the Department of Education, after exposing its hyper-partisan makeup and lack of actual parent representation.

• Held a HELP Committee hearing focused on DEI spending at colleges, highlighting how ideological programs drive up tuition and fail students academically and professionally.

Don't forget: Cassidy's opponent, Julia Letlow, has a history of promoting DEI during her time at the University of Louisiana Monroe.