12.05.22
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the disbanding of the National Parents and Families Engagement Council and its far-left, anti-school choice agenda. Last week, Cassidy and fellow U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Tim Scott (R-SC), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Mitt Romney (R-UT), wrote a letter to the Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sounding the alarm about the council’s hyper-partisan makeup.
“This administration cannot call something a ‘Parents and Families Engagement Council’ when it is full of partisan organization that do not represent the majority of parents,” said Dr. Cassidy. “The disbanding of this council is a major victory for parents.”
America First Legal had filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education and Secretary Cardona for violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Specifically, for breaking the insurance of adequate public notice of a committee’s activities and that it is fairly balanced and free from inappropriate influence.
Read the joint notice of dismissal here.
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