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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.
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News: May 18, 2010 - The Hill
'No Child' still embodies good policy
In 2002, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was signed into law and became a trademark for education reform. Today, numerous proposals have emerged to change the name, calling NCLB a toxic brand, and it is now fashionable to return to the generic title, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). However, what these proposals have forgotten is that the law was named to describe the policy it embodied. Read the Article >>
'No Child' still embodies good policy
In 2002, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was signed into law and became a trademark for education reform. Today, numerous proposals have emerged to change the name, calling NCLB a toxic brand, and it is now fashionable to return to the generic title, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). However, what these proposals have forgotten is that the law was named to describe the policy it embodied. Read the Article >>
News: March 18, 2010 - Dallas Morning News
Margaret Spellings: School accountability down the rabbit hole
Now fast-forward to the Obama administration's education plan, in which accountability has vanished under the Hatter's hat. Gone are today's requirements that schools make annual yearly progress. No longer would every school be responsible for improving the progress of its students. Read the Article >>
Margaret Spellings: School accountability down the rabbit hole
Now fast-forward to the Obama administration's education plan, in which accountability has vanished under the Hatter's hat. Gone are today's requirements that schools make annual yearly progress. No longer would every school be responsible for improving the progress of its students. Read the Article >>
News: March 4, 2010 - Roll Call
Congress, Obama Can Score a Big, Bipartisan Success: School Reform
Pronouncing herself "cautiously optimistic" is President George W. Bush's reformist Education secretary, Margaret Spellings. She told me that Obama should keep NCLB's 2014 goal of all-children-at-grade-level as a way station on the road to "college and career ready" by 2020. Read the Article >>
Congress, Obama Can Score a Big, Bipartisan Success: School Reform
Pronouncing herself "cautiously optimistic" is President George W. Bush's reformist Education secretary, Margaret Spellings. She told me that Obama should keep NCLB's 2014 goal of all-children-at-grade-level as a way station on the road to "college and career ready" by 2020. Read the Article >>
News: March 1, 2010 - Washington Post
Margaret Spellings defends 'No Child Left Behind'
The former secretary of education speaks with The Washington Post's Jo-Ann Armao and responds to current education secretary Arne Duncan's description of 'No Child Left Behind' as a 'toxic brand.' Read the Article >>
Margaret Spellings defends 'No Child Left Behind'
The former secretary of education speaks with The Washington Post's Jo-Ann Armao and responds to current education secretary Arne Duncan's description of 'No Child Left Behind' as a 'toxic brand.' Read the Article >>
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