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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That's why the Department has pledged $14 million to gather the best practices among the states and to better assess and better measure these kids.
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This is a victory for children and parents all across the country. Chief Judge Friedman's decision validates our partnership with states to close the achievement gap, hold schools accountable and to ensure all students are reading and doing math at grade-level by 2014.
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As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'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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a victory for children and parents all across the country.
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This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.
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This an unprecedented situation, and we have large numbers of kids who are displaced, public school students and private school students,
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
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Advanced Placement has proven to be a very effective model to get teachers the full capability to teach rigorous course work.
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This is a national commitment to you all here in the Gulf Coast, ... We owe each of these precious children, particularly after all they have been through, a high quality education.
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I see lots of support for it in the states. I think smart governors know, all governors know, that if you don't have an educated work force you're not going to have a strong and thriving state economy.
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Our hearts and thoughts go out to the students and educators at these schools, ... We're committed to doing everything we can to help these communities rebuild and to help these students get back to school as quickly as possible.
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We make small fixes with programs to emphasize key areas, but we don't think strategically about the bigger picture, ... We can't afford to leave the future of our nation's higher education community to chance.
For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
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We're open to new ideas, but we're not taking our eye off the ball,