79 Quotes by Margaret Spellings

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Under Secretary Spellings' leadership, stringent processes have been instituted to ensure these types of missteps don't happen again.

The president has said and decided that those who have opened their hearts and their communities and their schools to these kids these 372,000 displaced kids across the country will not be penalized for doing so, ... What we know is that we owe each of these precious children particularly after all they've been through a high-quality education and that is what we are committed to do.

We recognize that it's a little bit more complicated when there are different kinds of course offerings and class structures by state and by district.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

We don't want to write off this school year academically for these kids, and shouldn't, at least not yet.

And what we do today will probably be not what we're going to do in three years from now.

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

I shouldn't be talking about the details that I'm in negotiations with the White House and the Hill on, ... As soon as I can talk about it, I want to talk about it.