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Margaret Spellings and Company is a public policy and strategic consulting firm devoted to bringing expertise to our nation's most challenging issues. Led by former U.S. Secretary of Education and White House Domestic Policy Advisor Margaret Spellings, the firm's experts offer decades of experience developing public policy and message development on national, state, and local issues.
In The News
Monday, September 28, 2009 - The Washington Post
Margaret Spellings
When I was young, I knew I wanted to do something that mattered to the big world. I remember each year I would raise money for the muscular dystrophy telethon in my neighborhood and would encourage my entire family to be involved. I made my mother become a fortuneteller, my dad a ringmaster, and my sisters had to dress up like circus clowns. I probably raised $37.27 every year.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - The Dallas Morning News
Margaret Spellings Recalls Her Work with Ted Kennedy on the Dallas Morning News Blog
When I moved to Washington D.C. in late 2000 to become President Bush's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor, my first assignment was to work with Congress to enact the No Child Left Behind Act that the President had championed on the campaign trail. This law was unique in that it represented an approach far different from most Republicans in Washington who had called repeatedly for the abolition of the US Department of Education. Bush had worked with tenacity on education in Texas and focused especially on the needs of poor and minority students.
Monday, September 1, 2009 - LearningMatters.com
John Merrow Interviews Margaret Spellings
Margaret Spellings served as George W. Bush's Secretary of Education during his second term and was his White House advisor on education before that. A Texan since third grade, Ms. Spellings was never a teacher or school administrator but worked for the Texas School Boards Association and on a school reform commission for a previous Texas governor. Ms. Spellings is generally acknowledged to be a principal architect of No Child Left Behind, which she continues to defend with vigor. Always a feisty interview when she was in office, she clearly has not lost a step, as you will see.