Bush Picks Spellings to Lead Education Department
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President Bush promoted Margaret Spellings, his domestic policy adviser, on Wednesday to serve as Education secretary. She will replace departing secretary Rod Paige if she wins Senate confirmation.
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Margaret Spellings has been a close adviser to President Bush since his days as Texas governor.
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At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians to the White House to join him in the search.
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Handed a plan to shake up college life in America, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is endorsing some of its key ideas and promising to get moving on them.
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!"
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WASHINGTON - President Bush (search) prepared Monday to name his nominee to head the Commerce Department (search), and he is expected to revamp his economic team in the near future.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry each have command of at least one foreign language, but have been loath to put those skills to use as they stump ahead of next month's presidential election.
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President Bush on Monday was naming a new secretary of Health and Human Services, one of the last two openings in his Cabinet.
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A local school district canceled classes Friday to avoid traffic tie-ups during a campaign stop by first lady Laura Bush, who has made education one of her top priorities.
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A packed calendar awaits President Bush after his vacation in Texas: filling a gaping hole in his Cabinet, preparing his inaugural and State of the Union speeches, finalizing a new budget, keeping close watch on the upcoming elections in Iraq and promoting his second-term agenda.
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President Bush is moving to name a new secretary of agriculture to oversee the nation's farm and food programs.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush on Saturday  touted his plan to boost aid for high school students amid  criticism from his Democratic opponent that the president has  undercut his own efforts to fix schools.
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President Bush, who wants his legacy engraved with his education policy, lobbied Congress on Friday to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law &#151; and do it this year.
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(InfoWorld) - Mountain View, Calif. - Speaking at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday suggested allowing willing specialists to teach math and science part-time to stem the skills gap in these fields. But roadblocks, such as state regulations and teachers unions, have prevented this, Spellings said during a Churchill Club event. "It's not by accident that there are all these barriers," Spellings said. Asked by an audience member what was being done attract new teachers to the profession, Spellings presented a dire prognosis. "The short answer is we're not doing enough to attract our best and brightest to the profession," she said. "I believe that we make it so difficult. There are so many barriers to entry into this profession, itâs absurd," Spellings said. An approach such as having experts teach math or science just from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday is not allowable under regulations that require teachers to be in school 185 days a year, she said. Instead, math and science are being taught by teachers who do not specialize in those fields, Spellings said. She touted the federal No Child Left Behind law as bringing up test scores but emphasized that much more needs to be done to improve education for students, particularly minority students. The needs of high school and middle school students also must be addressed, Spelling said. One audience member cited the issue of disruptive students that prevent education of the entire class. But Spellings said issues of discipline are reserved for the state and local governments rather than being a federal issue. "We have to figure all this out in ways that make sense," Spellings said.Â  Surprisingly, Spellings agreed with the statement, "It takes a village," to meet the educational needs of children, which was noted by an audience member identifying herself as a math teacher at a low-income charter school in downtown San Jose, Calif. This statement was coined by Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton in a speech addressing the needs of children when she was first lady. Clinton's full statement was, "It takes a village to raise a child." "It does take a village," Spellings said.
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President Bush on Monday nominated Environmental Protection Agency director Michael Leavitt to replace Tommy Thompson as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Washington, Nov. 18. (PTI): US President George W Bush has appointed Harriet Miers as the new Cousel to the President and nominated Margaret Spellings as the new Education Secretary.
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦