HELP Chair Requests Stakeholder Feedback on Improving Academic Growth
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking input from parents and other stakeholders on how to measure student success. Specifically, the Committee is soliciting input on three focus areas: developing fair and high-quality measures of student growth; empowering families through clearer communication of school performance, including growth data; and strengthening the use of growth data to inform policymaking.
The Committee lists a series of questions that address lessons States have learned from implementing growth measures, the role of federal support and policy in enabling innovation, strategies for communicating growth information to families, challenges in measuring early elementary growth, and ways federal data systems—such as NAEP—could better support a national emphasis on student growth. Responses are due by February 13, 2026.