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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It's significant while we're making progress, it's with students who require extra intervention and attention,
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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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These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve, ... For the first time, we are insisting on results and accountability in return for our federal investment in education.
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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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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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The achievement gap is closing and that is great news for every student, ... These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve.
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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.