Bush names Spellings education chief
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President George W. Bush named Texan Margaret Spellings as his nominee to replace former school superintendent Rod Paige as Secretary of Education.
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Highlights of President Bush's second-term education proposals:
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President Bush picked two trusted  advisers with roots in his native Texas to fill the jobs of  education secretary and White House counsel on Wednesday, the  latest additions to a second-term staff that includes key  loyalists.
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White House domestic policy chief Margaret Spellings, who helped set the national agenda for schools, now begins the task of defining how she would lead them.
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Corrects spelling of director's name in 8th paragraph to Rowney from Romney.
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The education policy of the Bush administration is founded on two pillars: standardized testing and charter schools.    However, as reported in this New York Times article (see also the audio archive at NPR or nonsubscription coverage at the Boston Globe) , the US Department of Education's own testing data show that nationwide, charter schools are, in aggregate, lagging their public counterparts.
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President Bush on Monday nominated Michael Leavitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former Republican governor of Utah, to replace Tommy Thompson as secretary of HHS.
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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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President Bush on Saturday touted his plan to boost aid for high school students amid criticism from his Democratic opponent who said he has undercut efforts to fix failing schools.
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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¦
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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's daughter Jenna plans to live in the District of Columbia and teach at a public school serving low-income children.
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(WHITE HOUSE) - President Bush is tapping a woman he calls an &quot;energetic reformer&quot; to be his second-term education secretary.
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Every time George W. Bush has tried something big in education, he has relied on the same person to get results: Margaret Spellings.
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President Bush proposed $56 billion in Education Department funding, level with his proposal for the current fiscal year but 3 percent less than what Democrats are expected to approve for this year. He also sought about $1 billion in new spending related to the landmark No Child Left Behind law.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush today will nominate Margaret Spellings, his chief domestic policy adviser, as secretary of education -- making her the third senior White House staff member selected to lead a key agency in his second term -- senior
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Margaret Spellings, a close adviser to President Bush since his days as Texas governor, was nominated by Mr. Bush today to be secretary of education and pledged to do her