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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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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President Bush will be confronted by  strong domestic and foreign policy challenges as he begins a  second term this week that will go a long way toward  determining his place in the pantheon of American presidents.
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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 Wednesday  nominated a longtime close aide, White House domestic policy  adviser Margaret Spellings, as the next 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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(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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President Bush, left, announces that he has chosen Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive officer of the Kellogg Co., right, to be Secretary of Commerce, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has a nickname for Condoleezza Rice, his choice as the next secretary of state: &quot;The unsticker.
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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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CRAWFORD, Texas  - 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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President George W. Bush selected domestic policy adviser Margaret Spellings, an education aide when he was governor of Texas, to replace Roderick Paige as the secretary of education.
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Description: President Bush announces Environmental Protection Agency head Michael Leavitt as his choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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President Bush announces his latest choice for the cabinet job of &quot;Health and Human Services&quot;. Mr. Bush is picking the current Environmental Protection Agency chief Mike Leavitt.
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Michael Leavitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, was nominated by President George W. Bush to head the US Department of Health and Human Services in the president&#39;s second term.
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!"