{"id":2472243,"date":"2025-08-08T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cassidy-suggests-increased-oversight-for-education-funding-teacher-training-programs-to-boost-k-12-outcomes-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:52:17","slug":"cassidy-suggests-increased-oversight-for-education-funding-teacher-training-programs-to-boost-k-12-outcomes-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cassidy-suggests-increased-oversight-for-education-funding-teacher-training-programs-to-boost-k-12-outcomes-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy suggests increased oversight for education funding, teacher training programs to boost K-12 outcomes &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcassidy-suggests-increased-oversight-for-education-funding-teacher-training-programs-to-boost-k-12-outcomes-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2472243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is set to release a plan aimed at improving K-12 education outcomes by increasing oversight of education funding and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-elise-stefanik-there-is-nothing-more-terrifying-to-a-democrat-than-conservative-women\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2013 Elise Stefanik: \u2018There Is Nothing More Terrifying to a Democrat than Conservative Women\u2019\">teacher training programs<\/a>. As Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, Cassidy highlights the declining state of childhood literacy and overall K-12 performance, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many students struggling in reading proficiency. The plan emphasizes a more decentralized approach, empowering states and parents to adopt flexible, student-centered methods.<\/p>\n<p>cassidy&#8217;s report focuses on three main goals: enhancing student literacy, strengthening the teacher workforce, and empowering parents. He criticizes current teacher planning programs for focusing too much on theory rather than practical classroom management and instructional skills, calling for increased accountability in teacher training. Additionally, Cassidy points out that many teachers feel professional progress courses are irrelevant and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-feds-misquoted-scotus-to-force-states-to-let-men-in-girls-restrooms\/\" title=\"Judge: Feds Misquoted SCOTUS to Force ...s to Let Men in Girls&#039; Restrooms\">federal education funding<\/a> is hindered by excessive regulations. He proposes clearer guidance on the effective use of these funds.<\/p>\n<p>A key aspect of the plan is empowering parents by improving access to details about their children&#8217;s education and exploring updates to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to better support parental involvement.Cassidy urges Congress to remove needless requirements and focus on fundamental outcomes such as literacy, math skills, workforce preparation, and parental engagement to ensure schools are effectively serving students.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Cassidy suggests increased oversight for education funding, teacher training programs to boost K-12 outcomes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2197482\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-cassidy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bill Cassidy\">Bill Cassidy<\/a> (R-LA) will be releasing a plan to improve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"K-12\">K-12<\/a> outcomes, including increased oversight of education funding and teacher training programs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will release a report Friday morning, bemoaning the state of childhood literacy and K-12 schooling generally. Cassidy recommends adopting a more decentralized approach to education to solve the issue, empowering states and parents to adopt flexible methods for individual students.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3492352\/stanford-daily-sues-trump-administration-self-censorship-deportation\/\">Stanford student paper self-censorship prompts lawsuit against Trump over deportations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3491366\/georgia-progress-chronic-absenteeism-post-covid-19\/\">Georgia touts progress on getting chronic absenteeism post-COVID-19 back on track<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3491046\/judge-halts-arkansas-law-mandating-ten-commandments-display-classrooms\/\">Judge halts Arkansas law mandating Ten Commandments display in classrooms in the largest school districts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report outlined three main policy goals: improving student literacy, strengthening the teacher workforce, and empowering parents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The status quo of K-12 education is failing children and families. We are at risk of having an entire generation of children fail to become productive adults if reading proficiency does not improve,&rdquo;&nbsp;Cassidy told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in a statement. &rdquo;As Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, I am committed to improving literacy and reforming our education system to put children and families first.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without urgent intervention, we risk raising a generation unequipped to lead, compete, and thrive in the workplace,&rdquo; Cassidy wrote in the report.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most visible long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt by students, many of whom struggled to adapt to the disrupted structure. As of 2024, two-thirds of American fourth and eighth graders aren&rsquo;t proficient in reading. So far, only three states &mdash; Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi &mdash; have met or exceeded their 2019 reading levels. As for eighth graders, only Louisiana and the District of Columbia have met or exceeded their 2019 reading levels.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers face their own problems. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics showed that over one-third of teachers are disrespected by students at least once a week and suffer weekly verbal abuse from students in 17% of schools. One in five schools experience physical attacks or fights between students, necessitating a teacher response that leads to burnout.<\/p>\n<p>The training of teachers was a key problem outlined by Cassidy&rsquo;s report. He argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >current teacher training neglects classroom management skills<\/a>, lesson delivery, and curriculum development, instead being more &ldquo;concerned with theory than the practical means of running a classroom.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Teacher preparation programs should be about just that &ndash; preparing teachers. Instead, a recent report found that radical&nbsp; left-wing ideologies run rampant in the syllabi and course descriptions at colleges of education,&rdquo; Cassidy wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana Republican encouraged states to follow the lead of those who have begun threatening colleges&rsquo; accreditation, which don&rsquo;t properly teach &ldquo;proven instructional methods.&rdquo; He argued that these aggressive moves have already shown results in creating more effective teacher prep programs.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of teachers believe that the professional development courses offered or demanded by their schools are largely irrelevant. Cassidy recommended increased oversight and guidance for how schools spend federal funds. He argued that federal funding, which accounts for, on average, 7.5% of a school&rsquo;s budget, comes with too many strings attached and labrynthian rules and regulations. To rectify the problem, Congress should provide increased guidance on the most effective ways to use the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Another key theme in the report was the empowerment of parents. Cassidy argued that parents have to navigate too obtuse a process to get the proper information about their children&rsquo;s educational outcomes and best practices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In all federal policy, the goal should be to enable parents &ndash; the ultimate decision-makers to take charge of their&nbsp; child&rsquo;s education. If we empower them with information about schools, they can pair it with the knowledge they&nbsp; have of their child to make the best decision to meet their student&rsquo;s needs,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy pledged to explore updating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, last updated in 1974, to better address parents&rsquo; needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3423848\/bill-cassidy-drug-profits-medical-industry-new-cures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CASSIDY ARGUES ALLOWING DRUG COMPANIES TO PROFIT HELPS MEDICAL INDUSTRY DISCOVER NEW CURES\">CASSIDY ARGUES ALLOWING DRUG COMPANIES TO PROFIT HELPS MEDICAL INDUSTRY DISCOVER NEW CURES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, he argued that Congress should consider &ldquo;removing unnecessary requirements&rdquo; in order to focus on the &ldquo;guardrails that are fundamental to success.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are schools teaching students to read and do math? Are they preparing students for the&nbsp;workforce? Are parents in the driver&rsquo;s seat of their child&rsquo;s education? By focusing our efforts and empowering state and local leaders to prioritize student outcomes, we can better identify who is doing right by kids and who is not,&rdquo; Cassidy concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2197482\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2197482\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassidy proposes more oversight on education funding and teacher training to improve K-12 results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2472244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bill-Cassidy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33940,35136,47955,50584],"class_list":["post-2472243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-education-funding","tag-education-policy","tag-k-12-education","tag-teacher-training"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bill-Cassidy.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472247,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472243\/revisions\/2472247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}