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Yesterday afternoon, at the Federal Relations Network Conference, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings outlined the administration's priorities for NCLB for nearly 1,000 school board members in attendance. You can read Spellings' ... education enterprise. Before this law, we took for granted that our education system was meeting the needs of our students," Secretary Spellings said. "No Child Left Behind changed all that. The law brought standards, data-driven decision making and accountability ...

Last week's appearance of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings at NSBA's Federal Relations Network conference is still getting some reactions among those who have read reports of her comments. BoardBuzz coverage here of the event. Interesting take here on Spellings' comments from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. And check out this blog entry by a conference attendee from Oregon to read a ...

... on accountability, and I have a record that would suggest that, absolutely. But, you know, are we on an accountability journey ..." Spellings was actually defending NCLB for not being strong enough! From being around educators all the time, this seems a very odd ... NCLB did not includes some of these silly provisions, educators might have actually goy on board with it. Notice Margaret Spellings reauthorization timeline at the end? Don't worry, I caught it for you: "Well, we passed the very best ...

... bombs anywhere are most distressing and I'm afraid we are all vulnerable." ... 1957 (50 years ago today), Margaret Spellings (right) was born in Michigan, where she lived until age 3, when she and her family moved to Houston, ... , justice, housing, and other elements of the President's domestic agenda," before becoming Secretary of Education in 2005. Spellings is the 2d woman to lead the Department; the 1st was Shirley Hufstedtler (left), who resigned a federal appellate judgeship to become the 1st ...

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced today that she will allow as many as 10 states to use a "differentiated accountability" system to target interventions/sanctions for chronically low-performing schools rather than to treat all ... would continue to be subject to the current one-size-fits-all accountability framework? Good questions, all. Spellings wants to give this flexibility in the form of a "pilot program," limiting the number of states that can implement the new framework. Sen. ...

... with him this morning. He told me he was going to have to leave before my speech. He's a wise man, that Kirbyjon Caldwell. (Laughter.) But he has gone back home to Texas. I appreciate Margaret Spellings and her staff. Margaret is the Domestic Policy Advisor to the President, and I want to thank you for putting on this conference, Margaret. All of us here in America should believe, and I think we do, that we should be, as I mentioned, a nation ...

... several fronts this year. Notables such as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Rep. Michael Castle (R-Del.), and Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) addressed conference attendees, while Sen. ... re going to do it with carrots instead of whips," Koocher said. The Washington Times covered Secretary Spellings' remarks to the group and the comments and questions from conference attendees that followed. A delegate from Detroit ...

by John Weaver, Editor-At-Large Last month, Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education, released a "Dear Colleague" letter on the topic of college loans. In it, she asks colleges and universities to protect the borrower's ... with lenders and guarantors that constitute a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest. This attempts to make law many of the requests Spellings has made in her "Dear Colleague" letter from last month. The greater question, though, is how needed are ...

Ivory soap, No Child Left Behind-see the similarities? BoardBuzz didn't either, but that's the latest spin of Margaret Spellings in her praise of the law. This one goes even beyond the "go slow" approach we mentioned here. The Washington Post quoted Spellings as saying, "I like to talk about No Child Left Behind as Ivory soap. It's 99.9 percent pure. There's not much needed in the way of changes... . As much ...

... whether SES works. As of now -- five years after NCLB was passed -- the evidence of effectiveness is not there. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings disagreed. In her op-ed opposing Lewis' view, she announced that a new report from the department found ... who received SES for more than a year. What's more, parents said the program is helping their students achieve. The report Spellings mentioned has not been released; it's unclear what it will look like. One thing's for sure is that states are ...