Margaret Spellings
Margaret Spellings
Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings, née Dudar, is an education administrator and American politician. Spellings is currently the University of North Carolina System President, having taken office on March 1, 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth20 November 1957
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret Spellings quotes about
implement law sensible
implement this law in a sensible and workable way.
committed educators hearts help quickly rebuild school students thoughts
Our hearts and thoughts go out to the students and educators at these schools, ... We're committed to doing everything we can to help these communities rebuild and to help these students get back to school as quickly as possible.
high paid school truth
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
commitment school
We must not penalize any school of any kind for its commitment to these students,
integral
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
keeping
We're on the way to keeping that promise.
eye ideas open taking
We're open to new ideas, but we're not taking our eye off the ball,
budget budgets department either federal general negotiate president sure table
There are things in the Department of Education's budget and the federal government's general (budget) that the president has called for either trimming or eliminating, (and) those things I'm sure will be on the table as we negotiate with
assessment years understanding
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
trust children believe
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
relationship talking goal
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
safety workplace workplace-safety
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
respect children school
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
proud capability who-you-are
Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!