Margaret Spellings
Margaret Spellings
Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings, née Dudar, is an education administrator and American politician. Spellings is currently the University of North Carolina System President, having taken office on March 1, 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth20 November 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
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She never seeks the limelight, ... She's just extremely devoted to the president.
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One of the things we know is that, frequently, it's a reading deficiency that is keeping kids from being able to do more rigorous coursework.
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m working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.
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It's significant while we're making progress, it's with students who require extra intervention and attention,
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Everybody, I think, has that attitude to do everything they can to welcome these kids and get them back to kind of a normal life as soon as possible,
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It's time to get down to business and get some school happening,
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Take a look at your kids' after-school schedule this week ? the swimming, soccer and football, ... The numbers on your child's report card should be as important as the numbers on the scoreboard.
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There are things in the Department of Education's budget and the federal government's general (budget) that the president has called for either trimming or eliminating, (and) those things I'm sure will be on the table as we negotiate with
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We recognize that it's a little bit more complicated when there are different kinds of course offerings and class structures by state and by district.
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Also, make sure your children are challenged make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.
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The result does show us we need to accelerate progress at all grade levels, with all kids, if we are to meet those goals,
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At all grade levels, all subjects and all kids, we know where we need to work,
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As we say in Texas, if all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got. And all we ever got is really not good enough.