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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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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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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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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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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implement this law in a sensible and workable way.
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I'm working so much that I don't have time to go anywhere personally.
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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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And what we do today will probably be not what we're going to do in three years from now.
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We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
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We don't want to write off this school year academically for these kids, and shouldn't, at least not yet.
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There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.