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	Margaret Spellings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Spellings (born Margaret Dudar on November 30, 1957) is the current Secretary of Education under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and was previously Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to Bush.
		The eldest of four daughters, Spellings was born in Michigan and moved with her family to Houston when she was in third grade.
		Before her appointment to George W. Bush's presidential administration, Spellings was the political director for Bush's first gubernatorial campaign in 1994, and later became a senior advisor to Bush during his term as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Spellings (659 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Spellings To Examine 'No Child' Loophole
		Spellings' comments came in response to an Associated Press analysis that found nearly 2 million students were not counted when schools reported yearly progress by racial groups.
		With her comments, Spellings sought to get ahead of a story that threatens to embarrass the White House and undermine the whole point of the law: ensuring no child is left behind.
		Spellings said the law marks a watershed for closing the racial achievement gap because schools are required to report progress by race, not just overall school averages.
	cbs4denver.com /national/topstories_story_111133012.html (714 words)

	Bush Nominates Spellings as Secretary of Education - US Department of State
		President Bush nominated Margaret Spellings to be the new secretary of education on November 17.
		Spellings, currently assistant to the president for domestic policy, formerly served as then-Governor Bush's chief education adviser in Texas.
		Spellings said that she shares the president's "commitment to seeing that each and every child has the skills and qualities necessary to realize the American Dream." If confirmed by the Senate, Spellings would replace outgoing Education Secretary Rod Paige.
	usinfo.state.gov /special/Archive/2004/Nov/17-46275.html (1228 words)

	Spellings not subtle about change in tone - Boston.com
		Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is interviewed by the Associated Press in her Washington office, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006.
		Spellings, who had served as President Bush's domestic policy chief, has not been subtle about her change in tone.
		Spellings, who was a senior adviser to Bush on education policy when he was Texas governor, said she won't budge on the core elements of the law.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2006/01/19/spellings_not_subtle_about_change_in_tone (958 words)

	Online NewsHour: Margaret Spellings Discusses New Guidelines for the No Child Left Behind Law -- April 7, 2005
		Analysts discuss the nomination of Margaret Spellings to replace Rod Paige as the secretary of education.
		MARGARET SPELLINGS: What this new regulation will provide for states who are committed to providing additional instruction, teacher training and much more sophisticated assessments, it's going to make it easier for them to serve kids better.
		MARGARET SPELLINGS: I know that what the Congress asked the Department of Education to do was to work on early reading and early numeracy, and developmental skills for young children, in this case six- to eight-year-old children for this programming.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/education/jan-june05/spellings_4-7.html (2018 words)

	Online NewsHour: Margaret Spellings Nominated as Secretary of Education -- November 17, 2004
		Margaret Warner leads a discussion with two education policy experts, about the nomination of Margaret Spellings to replace Rod Paige as the secretary of education.
		MARGARET WARNER: For more on Margaret Spellings' appointment and what it may mean for education, we turn to: Congressman George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee -- he worked with Spellings in negotiating the "No Child Left Behind" bill.
		MARGARET WARNER: Diane Ravitch, I'd like to ask you about another issue, in which I think some conservatives had concerns about Margaret Spellings and that is her attitude towards school choice, vouchers, charter schools and so on.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/education/july-dec04/spellings_11-17.html (2236 words)

	COE :: News :: Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Speaks at COE's Advisory Council Meeting
		U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings was the keynote speaker at the College of Education’s fall Education Foundation Advisory Council meeting, an event attended by over 200 state legislators, educators, business leaders and national policymakers.
		In honor of Spellings’ visit to The University of Texas at Austin, the event was held at the Headliners Club in downtown Austin and featured a luncheon.
		Spellings also described plans to examine U.S. higher education with the same rigor that was applied to elementary and secondary public education.
	www.edb.utexas.edu /education/news/2006/spellings06.php (664 words)

	'Under the Radar' -- Up Till Now (washingtonpost.com)
		Margaret Spellings, who was named yesterday as secretary of education, arrived in Washington from Texas four years ago as a divorced single mother and member of the palace guard around President Bush.
		Margaret Spellings, President Bush's nominee for education secretary, motions for the audience to hold its applause at a White House ceremony.
		Spellings became the subject of conservative sniping soon after moving to Washington after she was asked on C-SPAN to react to census data showing a decline in the traditional family.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56980-2004Nov17.html (991 words)

	Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education -- Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Margaret Spellings is the U.S. Secretary of Education.
		Secretary Spellings is working to ensure that every young American has the knowledge and skills to succeed in the 21st century.
		Born in Michigan, Spellings moved with her family at a young age to Houston, Texas, where she attended public schools.
	www.ed.gov /news/staff/bios/spellings.html (398 words)

	www.NASFAA.org President Bush Names His Domestic Policy Advisor, Margaret Spellings, as Secretary of Education
		Spellings is one of the primary authors of the landmark K-12 education reform bill No Child Left Behind and a longtime adviser on education to the president.
		The 46-year-old Spellings advised Bush on education issues when he was governor of Texas and formerly acted as the associate executive director of the Texas Association of School Boards.
		Spellings also failed to mention specific goals for higher education in her remarks, but in an emotional speech accepting the nomination she noted, "I am a product of our public schools.
	www.nasfaa.org /publications/2004/gbushtapsspellings111804.html (510 words)

	CampusProgress.org \| Spellings Check
		Spellings’ recommendations, based on a recent report by the department’s Higher Education Commission, comes in the wake of a recently published report that found 40 states receiving Fs in college and university affordability, even as more jobs require a college degree.
		Spellings also pledged to simplify the FAFSA form and get offers of federal aid to students before the spring of their senior year of high school.
		Spelling’s speech was meant to push for aggressive changes in how our higher-education system works during the twilight years of the Bush administration.
	www.campusprogress.org /features/1189/spellings-check (969 words)

	CNN.com - Bush picks Spellings for education secretary - Nov 17, 2004
		Spellings has served as a domestic policy adviser since Bush took office in 2001, with issues such as education, health and labor in her portfolio.
		Before coming to the White House, Spellings worked for six years as a senior adviser to Bush when he was governor of Texas, where she also was responsible for developing education policy.
		Spellings in her new role," the NEA said in a statement.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/17/education.secretary/index.html (668 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Spellings backs simplifying of college choices
		Spellings outlined her plans ahead of a Tuesday speech at the National Press Club.
		Spellings' comments were warmly received by the commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education.
		Yet Spellings would not commit to one of her advisory panel's most specific ideas: increasing Pell Grants to cover at least 70 percent of in-state tuition costs.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,650194015,00.html (1002 words)

	College overhaul called 'overdue' - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spellings' plans are in response to recommendations by a 19-member commission she created last year to address mounting concerns that U.S. higher-education performance and costs largely escape public scrutiny.
		Spellings said her plan would make information available to parents, policymakers and others in an easy-to-understand format.
		Spellings offered few details about the database Tuesday but told commission members Monday that she was open to testing such a database as a pilot project, said David Ward, president of the American Council on Education.
	www.usatoday.com /news/education/2006-09-26-spellings-college_x.htm (701 words)

	wcbstv.com - Bush Taps Margaret Spellings For Education Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spellings, who was joined in the Roosevelt Room of the White House with her two daughters, became emotional as she accepted the post.
		Spellings has overseen a range of domestic policy, from justice to housing, but education is an issue of deep interest.
		Kress has known Spellings since she was a lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards in the early 1990s.
	wcbstv.com /topstories/topstories_story_322113040.html (643 words)

	KRT Wire \| 09/28/2006 \| Margaret Spellings emerges as proven asset to Bush administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If Donald Rumsfeld is the face of the war that is President Bush's most controversial initiative, Margaret Spellings is the face of the education program that might become his most successful one.
		Spellings also endorsed many recommendations in a national commission's proposal to extend the administration's efforts to increase education standards in colleges and universities, though she sidestepped its proposal to expand federal scholarship aid.
		One big advantage Spellings - and the administration - will have in seeking to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law is that, unlike Paige, she is widely respected by both parties on Capitol Hill.
	www.fortwayne.com /mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15628683.htm (753 words)

	Spellings, Bush's longtime adviser, heads for education's top post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Margaret Spellings, who helped shape the nation's sweeping education act, pledged Thursday to listen to those demanding changes in the law if she becomes the nation's education secretary.
		Spellings, 47, would be the first female education secretary in more than 20 years and the first schools chief in recent history to have children in school.
		Spellings would be asked to help persuade Congress to accept the idea, but the proposal already faces a fight from lawmakers who say the federal government is overstepping its bounds.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/06/national1021EST0528.DTL (634 words)

	Newsvine - Spellings Offers to Ease College Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spellings said she would make a handful of changes on her own and start building support for some of the more sweeping ideas that came from her higher education commission.
		Spellings also pledged to make it easier for people to apply for financial aid and to compare the price and the value of one school to another.
		But he said Spellings' speech eased his concern that she was poised to enact some one-size-fits-all standards.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/09/26/375328-spellings-offers-to-ease-college-process (915 words)

	ABC News: Profile: Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
		Margaret Spellings, the new education secretary, listens to Bush in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Nov. 17, 2004.
		Margaret Spellings, President Bush's choice for education secretary, has been confirmed by the Senate.
		Certainly, Spellings has a track record of exceptional loyalty, a trait that cannot be overestimated in the Bush administration, according to Washington insiders.
	www.abcnews.go.com /Politics/story?id=263257&page=1 (357 words)

	Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
		Prior to her White House appointment, Spellings worked for six years as Governor George W. Bush's Senior Advisor with responsibility for developing and implementing the Governor's education policy.
		Born in Michigan in 1957, Spellings moved with her family at a young age to Houston, Texas, where she attended public schools.
		Spellings is the first mother of school children to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education.
	www.usemb.se /cabbio/spellings.html (248 words)

	President Bush Nominates Margaret Spellings as Secretary of Education
		I'm proud to announce my nomination of Margaret Spellings to be the Secretary of Education.
		Margaret Spellings and I are determined to extend the high standards and accountability measures of the No Child Left Behind Act to all of America's public high schools.
		I urge the Senate to promptly confirm Margaret Spellings as America's eighth Secretary of Education.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2004/11/20041117-4.html (960 words)

	Margaret Spellings: Nominee for Sec. of Education - America's Debate
		Margaret Spellings currently serves as the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
		Margaret Spellings was born in Houston in 1958 and earned her B.A. from the University of Houston.
		Margaret Spellings was a lobbyist for education when she went to work for Bush in Texas.
	www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=8648 (3492 words)

	Margaret Spellings \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was the guest at a Thursday luncheon for reporters sponsored by the Monitor.
		Margaret Spellings has a lifelong connection with education - in fact, her parents were students at the University of Michigan when she was born.
		Secretary Spellings graduated with a degree in political science and journalism from the University of Houston.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/1021/p25s02-usmb.html (786 words)

	Margaret Spellings: In Her Own Class
		Margaret Spellings is the U.S. secretary of education, the former West Wing domestic policy adviser, the political protege of Karl Rove and the Texan friend of the president.
		Spellings, 48, the first mother of school-age children to be education secretary, comes home at night to Alexandria.
		Spellings is blunter than you might expect, vivid and bigger, as if her photo had been cropped and enlarged.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501891_pf.html (902 words)

	Schools Matter: Reading First and Margaret LaMontagne Spellings
		MARGARET WARNER: For more on Bush's plan, we're joined by Margaret LaMontagne, Governor Bush's education adviser, and William Galston, senior policy adviser for Vice President Gore and a professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland.
		MARGARET LaMONTAGNE: We would allow portability and up to $1500 per child to be matched by the state and to flow to the parents so that they could make a difference choice.
		For Spellings to deny innermost knowledge of what was going on at ED before she was promoted to Secreatary is just as believeable as any other lie emanating from the failed government in the White House.
	schoolsmatter.blogspot.com /2006/10/reading-first-and-margaret-lamontagne.html (867 words)

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		SPELLINGS: Well, we know, from the private sector, from the business community, that the jobs that are the fast growing jobs, the innovation economy, is going to be driven by people who have skills in math and science.
		SPELLINGS: Absolutely, the Defense Department, our military, the scientists that work in the government at NASA, or the National Institutes of Health, people who are working to cure the Avian Flu – those are skills that obviously are rooted in the sciences.
		SPELLINGS: Without No Child Left Behind and the truth in advertising we now have because of this law, parents are now armed with more information about what the quality of their schools are -- and when there are problems, what the specific problems are.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/commentary/060410a.asp (2280 words)

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