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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We're on the way to keeping that promise.
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My top priority is raising student achievement, and I'm going to be as flexible as I possibly can to help all students, ... This is about children's futures and ensuring that New York City's parents have as many options as possible for their children. In exchange for more flexibility, New York City has committed to being accountable for making high-quality academic help available to more students, which will lead to increased achievement.
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I'm working so much that I don't have time to go anywhere personally.
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The federal government is doing something it has never done before, ... Our 9 percent investment is going to 90 percent. That's my big news.
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I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,
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A growth model is not a way around accountability standards,
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
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Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
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What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
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But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.