Chair Cassidy Launches Inquiry into Students’ Declining Math Scores, Preparedness for College

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent an inquiry to 35 selective U.S. colleges and universities to uncover the root cause of students' dramatic decline in preparedness for collegiate level math courses.

"The United States faces a crisis in student achievement at the K-12 level that has begun to spill over into higher education, especially in math," wrote Dr. Cassidy. "This state of affairs is unacceptable and demands immediate corrective action. To that end, as Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, I am launching an inquiry to better understand the prevalence and root causes of declines in math preparation at selective institutions of higher education."

Specifically, Cassidy is requesting information from Boston College, Boston University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Rice University, Stanford University, Tufts University, Tulane University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Chicago, University of Miami, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Yale University.

Cassidy previously raised concerns over the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results showing a significant decline in students' reading, math, and science scores. Cassidy also released a report outlining his proposals to fix America's broken education system and improve child literacy rates.

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