{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-common-core-and-parcc-assessment-wrong-for-students-with-dyslexia", "Cassidy: Common Core and PARCC Assessment Wrong for Students with Dyslexia", "2015-10-16", "2015", "2015-10", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTONU.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. chaired two Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearings in New Orleans and Baton Rouge this week. The hearings follow the passage of a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. Senate designating October 2015 as National Dyslexia Awareness Month, recognizing that dyslexia has significant educational implications that must be addressed. The Resolution, S. Res. 275, can be readhere.\r\nSen. Cassidy released a statement about the Common Core/PARCC Assessment after the hearings:In the committee hearings this weekI listened to countless people who live with dyslexia give testimonies on their struggles and successes, along with the scientific data presented by Doctors Bennett and Sally Shaywitz. The PARCC Assessment does not account for individuals with dyslexia and fails to measure the abilities of students, instead focusing on disabilities. It is wrong to put all students under one general test when we have seen from the committee hearings this week that is unrealistic and further excludes individuals with dyslexia.\r\nDoctors Bennett and Sally Shaywitz, Director and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity at the Yale University School of Medicine presented the scientific progress that has been made in studies of dyslexia at the hearings.\r\nRead excerpts of their testimony below or clickherefor the full text andherefor supporting materials.\r\n\r\nOverwhelming evidence indicates that we are in the midst of a national epidemic of reading/academic failure. Accumulating scientific evidence demonstrates that dyslexia both may be at the root of the reading difficulties noted and provide a potential solution to this unfortunate epidemic.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-common-core-and-parcc-assessment-wrong-for-students-with-dyslexia"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.466067973524332, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}