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protestors outside the room shouted loud enough to be heard through the closed doors. According to the protestors, Spellings represented "everything that is troubling in the direction of public higher education in this country." "Faculty leaders said they were ignored during the process." Outgoing
President Ross described the environment Spellings was entering as "hostile". On her first day, March 1, 2016, students and faculty walked out of their classes on six campuses. In Chapel Hill, demonstrators gathered on the steps of
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Several board of governors members called on Board
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It had a secondary focus on how well high schools were preparing students for post-secondary education. Spellings described the work of the commission as a natural extension into higher education of the reforms carried out under No Child Left Behind, and is quoted as saying: "It's time we turn this
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Association of School Boards. Before her appointment to George W. Bush's presidential administration, Spellings was the political director for Bush's first gubernatorial campaign in 1994, and later became a senior advisor to Bush during his Texas
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Education Department had been "asleep at the switch" in overseeing student loan programs, allowing corruption and conflicts of interest to spread. Spellings has further gone on record to say that she is disregarding the suggestion by the Inspector General to hold the loan companies
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Spellings had been "supporting for-profit colleges who prey on students – and then profiting off those same students when they default on their loans." Spellings served on the board of directors for the Apollo Group, the parent company of the for-profit
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in April 2021. As co-chairs, this commission will compile solutions for a comprehensive tech policy agenda under
President Biden and Congress on topics as privacy, antitrust, digital dequity, and content moderation/platform accountability.
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that "the world is very different today" and that the government "now reflects a greater openness to the multi-faceted, diverse stories that
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was funded in part by the Department of Education and "that many parents would not want their young children exposed to the life-styles portrayed in the episode." PBS decided not to distribute the episode, but
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that aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. She served as education secretary for the entire second term of Bush's administration, during which time she convened the
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of Raleigh reported that Spellings reversed her position and said she would not enforce HB2 to avoid a possible loss in federal funding for North Carolina.
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the "soft bigotry of low expectations". According to the program's transcript, she said:
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other criticisms, such as her closeness to right-wing political figures.
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system by the board of governors, effective March 1, 2016. She succeeded
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1524:"As UNC-system President Margaret Spellings walks in, students walk out"
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elephant around and upside down and take a look at it."
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when she was in the third grade. She graduated from
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1984:Doug Lederman, "The Secretary Offers a Preview,"
1648:Stancill, Jane; Bonner, Lynn (January 16, 2015).
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858:Grieder, Erica (September 25, 2019).
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1188:"In Focus: The Spellings Commission"
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827:"Playbook: Christie. Pence. Burgum?"
299:United States secretary of education
46:United States Secretary of Education
1456:Stancill, Jane (October 22, 2015).
1358:Stancill, Jane (October 23, 2015).
1217:Doug Lederman (September 8, 2006).
912:"Bush Taps Spellings For Education"
894:Houston Independent School District
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517:House Education and Labor Committee
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303:University of North Carolina System
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1489:Hodge, Blake (December 11, 2015).
1244:Corbin, Cristina (March 8, 2009).
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1002:"PBS' 'Buster' Gets An Education"
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1219:"The Secretary Offers a Preview"
1132:Lipka, Sara (January 10, 2008).
971:Feller, Ben (January 31, 2005).
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3147:University of Houston alumni
2967:University of North Carolina
1278:". Retrieved August 9, 2009.
670:University of North Carolina
650:Education Amendments of 1972
598:University of North Carolina
486:The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
455:, based on the controversy.
160:University of North Carolina
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1656:Raleigh News & Observer
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749:Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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253:Robert Spellings (divorced)
251:Gregg LaMontagne (divorced)
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1862:"J! Archive, Show #5107"
570:U.S. Chamber of Commerce
495:No Child Left Behind Act
483:In April 2005, on PBS's
328:Early life and education
318:No Child Left Behind Act
295:Bipartisan Policy Center
2986:Consolidated University
2053:Domestic Policy Council
1165:", by Valerie Strauss,
566:Boston Consulting Group
479:is seated at the right.
390:second female Secretary
109:Domestic Policy Council
3122:Educators from Houston
2783:Christine Todd Whitman
2679:Secretary of Education
1944:Dungeons & Dragons
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608:Selection controversy
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534:University of Phoenix
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430:Postcards from Buster
410:Postcards from Buster
397:Postcards from Buster
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357:University of Houston
270:University of Houston
2843:Trade Representative
2417:Secretary of Defense
1890:. TheDailyShow.com.
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1295:on February 17, 2013
1225:on September 5, 2008
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948:. January 20, 2005.
900:on February 3, 2006.
467:No Child Left Behind
2654:Secretary of Energy
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1463:News & Observer
1322:Wall Street Journal
1140:on January 13, 2008
1091:on January 19, 2011
1015:, January 27, 2005.
724:Bush Administration
715:Celebrity Jeopardy!
654:News & Observer
640:On May 4, the U.S.
529:News & Observer
361:William P. Clements
334:Ann Arbor, Michigan
309:from 2019 to 2023.
231:Ann Arbor, Michigan
2795:Stephen L. Johnson
2693:Margaret Spellings
2554:Secretary of Labor
2354:Secretary of State
2037:Political offices
1916:The Colbert Report
1688:The Daily Tar Heel
1366:Charlotte Observer
1198:on August 29, 2008
835:. Washington, DC.
752:on March 8, 2008.
739:The Colbert Report
708:In popular culture
690:Common Sense Media
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493:resistance to the
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864:Houston Chronicle
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