In early August, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released Preventing a Lost Generation: A Vision for K-12 Reforms to Ensure Student Success. The report provides recommendations to solve what Chairman Cassidy describes as [the] “bleak picture” that the nation’s reading scores present -when only three states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi) report grade level reading gains back to pre-pandemic levels for 4 th graders and only two (DC and Louisiana) showing progress for 8 th graders. Related to children with distinct learning needs, Cassidy notes, “Many students in public schools are struggling with literacy because they have unidentified and undiagnosed learning needs, such as dyslexia, ADHD, autism, etc.” The report specifies that students with dyslexia “are not being screened at all or not until they are significantly behind…[and] even after screening they are then not being given the support and tools they need to catch-up.” To address students’ literacy needs and with a focus on creating more flexibility with federal K-12 education funds available to states under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Cassidy lays out three Policy Goals and makes policy recommendations to Congress and the Secretary of Education. The goals are: 1) Improving Student Literacy; 2) Strengthening the Teacher Workforce; and 3) Empowering Parents. The Chairman calls upon the U.S. Department of Education directly to publish a report on states’ uses of ESEA Title II (Professional Learning) funds; to highlight how states/districts can use these funds for innovation; to focus oversight on use of [ESEA] funds; and, to clarify federal rules and regulations about the use of funds.