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see pension plan sinecure like starr baylortexas miracle bs? nclb disasterOMG<div class="content-section content-section-title" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 1em 0px 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 1116px; position: relative; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="max-height: 1e+06px; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; border: 0px;">U.S. Chamber Names Margaret Spellings as Senior Advisor</h1></div><div id="timelineanchor" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; height: 10px; position: relative; top: -60px; line-height: 15px;"><div class="content-section" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 1116px; position: relative; line-height: 15px;"><article class="node-73811 node node-document view-mode-full clearfix" about="/press-release/us-chamber-names-margaret-spellings-senior-advisor" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><header style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="field field-name-field-event-date field-type-date field-label-hidden" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 8:00pm</div><div class="field-item even" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that Margaret Spellings will join its team as Senior Advisor to President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. Ms. Spellings is President and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company and most recently served as Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush."Margaret will help us with a broad range of initiatives, including a new program of outreach to governors and mayors," said U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. "We are very excited to be benefiting from her extraordinary experiences in state and federal government."Ms. Spellings was the Secretary of Education under the Bush administration and was previously Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. She was one of the principal proponents of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. In 2005, she convened a Commission on the Future of Higher Education to recommend reform at the post-secondary level.Ms. Spellings earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Houston in 1979, worked on an education reform commission under Texas Governor William P. Clements and as associate executive director for the Texas Association of School Boards. Before her appointment to the Bush administration, Spellings was the political director for Bush's first gubernatorial campaign in 1994, and later became a senior advisor to Bush during his term as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.Ms. Spellings began her new position on April 1, 2009.The U.S. Chamber is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region.# # #</div></div></div></header></article></div>
{ In a more recent development, last fall, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed a Commission on Higher Education. Spellings, described as a protégé of Rove, gained considerable attention as the principal architect of President Bush’s controversial “No Child Left Behind” initiative. Among the proposals being discussed by Spellings’s new commission is one that calls for scrapping the current system of accreditation, which is done by independent regional bodies, in favor of a National Accreditation Foundation that would be created by Congress and the president.
The current system of institutional review through independent accreditation boards is one of the hallmarks of American higher education and is one of the most important structural safeguards of the academy’s ability to ensure academic quality and intellectual excellence. The introduction of oversight by an inherently partisan political body in lieu of the currently independent accreditation process is a peculiar remedy if the perceived ailment in the academy is political bias. Carol Geary Schneider, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, has said that “the commission is sending out firebolts, one after another." To chair this extraordinary committee Secretary Spellings chose Charles Miller, a former chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents and, historically, a large contributor to the President’s election campaigns. }In a more recent development, last fall, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed a Commission on Higher Education. Spellings, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501891.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">described as a protégé of Rove,</a> gained considerable attention as the principal architect of President Bush’s controversial “No Child Left Behind” initiative. Among the proposals being discussed by Spellings’s new commission is one that calls for <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/31/accredit" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: white;">scrapping the current system of accreditation,</a> which is done by independent regional bodies, in favor of a National Accreditation Foundation that would be created by Congress and the president.The current system of institutional review through independent accreditation boards is one of the hallmarks of American higher education and is one of the most important structural safeguards of the academy’s ability to ensure academic quality and intellectual excellence. The introduction of oversight by an inherently partisan political body in lieu of the currently independent accreditation process is a peculiar remedy if the perceived ailment in the academy is political bias. Carol Geary Schneider, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/20/spellings" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: white;">has said</a> that “the commission is sending out firebolts, one after another." 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=731&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings+margaret+spellings+pbs&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQHwgwMAI" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=731&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings+margaret+spellings+pbs&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQHwgwMAI" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=731&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings+margaret+spellings+pbs&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQHwgwMAI" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=731&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings+margaret+spellings+pbs&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQHwgwMAI" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Political party‎: ‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Republican</a></div><div class="pgd" data-ved="0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQsz0INSgBMAI" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 15px; vertical-align: top;">Alma mater‎: ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Texas A&M University, College St...</a></div></div><div class="WQd" style="display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="qgd" data-ved="0ahUKEwjVj5uIpMTNAhXCKWMKHe0ODGEQsz0INygCMAI" style="display: table-cell;">Spouse(s)‎: ‎Gregg LaMontagne (Divorced); Ro...</div></div></div></div></div></div>=CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was selected as the next president of North Carolina’s public university system on Friday, with its governing board opting for the nonacademic with Republican political credentials.Spellings, a protege of former President George W. Bush, was selected by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, which oversees 17 campuses enrolling more than 220,000 students.Spellings will replace Tom Ross, a Democrat who was lavishly praised but pushed out by the governing board after members said they wanted a change they were unable to define. The university system’s flagship school, at Chapel Hill, is still grappling with a scandal in which athletes benefited from sham classes and artificially high grades for almost two decades.Ross was scheduled to step down in January. Spellings’ contact starts in March. Her five-year contract will pay her a base salary of $775,000 a year, a nearly 30 percent increase over Ross.In her initial comments after Friday’s vote, Spellings talked about the importance of ensuring quality education for all, especially poor and minority students.“We must close the achievement gap at all levels,” she said.rove mentor?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501891.html
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Laura Blumenfeld</div>Thursday, January 26, 2006</div><div id="article_body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Margaret Spellings is the U.S. secretary of education, the former West Wing domestic policy adviser, the political protege of Karl Rove and the Texan friend of the president.<div id="body_after_content_column" style="box-sizing: border-box;">But to her teenage daughters, she is also something else -- "an anal-retentive chowderhead.""Clean up the dishes, blah, blah, blah," Grace, 13, mimicked her mother in a sing-song voice."All you do is trash your room. Trash, trash, trash," sang Mary, 18, snapping her fingers.Spellings, 48, the first mother of school-age children to be education secretary, comes home at night to Alexandria. "She's not the secretary at Bowling Drive," said Robert, 64, her lawyer husband.Spellings's lesson plan: Educate America. Her homework is her home work.On this evening, the Spellings family walked into the Carl Sandburg Middle School for a student concert. Grace would sing in the chorus, and Mary, on break from college, would play the flute. Parents and children streamed into the auditorium. The air was humid and filled with screeches."This is like going to the zoo," Spellings said, taking a seat near the rear. "Seventh- and eighth-graders are wild animals."Spellings is blunter than you might expect, vivid and bigger, as if her photo had been cropped and enlarged. She is a tall woman swinging an iguana-green purse, wearing edgy rectangular glasses and chewing gum. (She spits it into the garbage when you arrive, as if you were the teacher.) Spellings scanned the crowd: "Colin's the little hottie of the school."<div id="inline-ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; padding-right: 10px; float: left;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/img/ad_label_leftjust.gif" alt="ad_icon" width="100" height="13" border="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px;" /></div></div>She had her babies without pain medication. She's a tough enough manager to be called a "bulldog on details" by Rove; strong enough to raise her girls as a single mom when her first marriage ended; brave enough to admit that she dreams of being a torch singer draped over a piano; Texan enough to live by the motto (on her notepad) "Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.""Your favorite song is 'Clean Your Room, Mary,' " teased Mary as they watched the first chorus line up....</div></div>

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<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/06/16/jones">https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/06/16/jones</a>

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<div class="meta" style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submitted by Alan Jones on June 16, 2006 - </div>

By all objective measures, the dawning of the 21st century should be a golden era for American higher education. A recent issue of The Economist described America’s system of higher education as “the best in the world” and provided convincing documentation for its claim. A recent <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3671/is_200504/ai_n13641838" target="_blank">review article</a> [1] by Jonathan Cole, provost at Columbia University, meticulously documents the preeminence of U.S. higher education in the world today as an established fact.

Perhaps sensing the current domestic political climate, however, Cole uses his analysis as the basis for sounding a strong cautionary note. “The United States paid a heavy price when the leaders of its research universities in the 1950’s failed to defend the leader of the Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer; the double Nobel Prize chemist Linus Pauling; and the China expert Owen Lattimore. But a wave of repression in American universities today is apt to have even more dramatic consequences for the nation than the repression of the Cold War.”

This broad-based and even global acclaim for higher education in the United States is strangely at odds with the concentrated political attacks that Cole warns us about and that the academy is currently experiencing. It is particularly out of step with the dark and dysfunctional picture of the academy painted by David Horowitz and his <a href="http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21302" target="blank">Center for the Study of Popular Culture.</a> [2] If Horowitz were simply a disaffected political crank, as many have hitherto regarded him, then his views on the academy could be easily dismissed. Such dismissal would seem to be all the more in order following his disastrous testimony before the legislative subcommittee in Pennsylvania in which he was <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract" target="blank">forced to recant as unsubstantiated</a> [3] several of the cases that he had been widely circulating as documentation of alleged malfeasance in the academy.

Oddly, however, his campaign goes on. Horowitz, with assistance from Karl Rove and the former House majority whip, Tom DeLay, has briefed Republican members of Congress on his Academic Bill of Rights campaign and DeLay has even <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0106-30.htm" target="_blank">distributed copies</a> [4] of Horowitz’s political primer The Art of Political Warfare: How Republicans Can Fight to Win to all Republican members of Congress. Rove refers to Horowitz’s pamphlet as “a perfect pocket guide to winning on the political battlefield."

In a more recent development, last fall, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed a Commission on Higher Education. Spellings, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501891.html" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">described as a protégé of Rove,</a> [5] gained considerable attention as the principal architect of President Bush’s controversial “No Child Left Behind” initiative. Among the proposals being discussed by Spellings’s new commission is one that calls for <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/31/accredit" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">scrapping the current system of accreditation,</a> [6] which is done by independent regional bodies, in favor of a National Accreditation Foundation that would be created by Congress and the president.

The current system of institutional review through independent accreditation boards is one of the hallmarks of American higher education and is one of the most important structural safeguards of the academy’s ability to ensure academic quality and intellectual excellence. The introduction of oversight by an inherently partisan political body in lieu of the currently independent accreditation process is a peculiar remedy if the perceived ailment in the academy is political bias. Carol Geary Schneider, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/20/spellings" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has said</a> [7] that “the commission is sending out firebolts, one after another." To chair this extraordinary committee Secretary Spellings chose Charles Miller, a former chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents and, historically, a large contributor to the President’s election campaigns.

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National Chmber Fdn

koch National Chamber Foundation: $100,000 for "Campaign for Free Enterprise".

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SEPTEMBER

On September 10, U.S. Chamber Watch files charges with the IRS that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “violated tax codes by laundering millions of dollars meant for charitable work from a group with ties to the insurance giant AIG.”

September 10, 2010

Chamber of Commerce Accused of Tax Fraud

By ERIC LICHTBLA

WASHINGTON — With a war chest rivaling that of the Republican Party itself, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in the last year as perhaps the Obama administration’s most-well-financed rival on signature policy debates like health care and financial regulation.

Critics on the left have long complained about the chamber’s outsize influence. But now they are taking on the business association directly, charging in a complaint filed Friday with the Internal Revenue Service that it violated tax codes by laundering millions of dollars meant for charitable work from a group with ties to the insurance giant A.I.G.

The complaint was brought by a group called U.S. Chamber Watch, which was created four months ago — with the strong financial backing of labor unions — to scrutinize the Chamber of Commerce’s growing influence and provide a counterbalance.

But chamber officials said they had complied with all tax laws and dismissed the complaint as a political ploy.

A chamber spokeswoman, Tita Freeman, said its opponents “are desperately looking for opportunities to undermine the chamber’s efforts to promote free markets and economic growth.”

The I.R.S. refused to comment on the complaint, citing the confidentiality of taxpayer records.

I.R.S. regulators have often been wary of wading into political grievances, particularly after evidence emerged during the Watergate scandal that the Nixon White House had sought to use the agency for political purposes.

But in recent years the agency has occasionally gotten involved in politically tinged controversies. In one high-profile case in 2004, Republican[crc?] complaints led it to open an investigation into the N.A.A.C.P.’s tax-exempt status after the group’s leader criticized President George W. Bush in a speech. The I.R.S. concluded two years later that the remarks did not violate the group’s nonprofit restrictions on political activity.

At issue in the complaint against the Chamber of Commerce is whether the group mixed funds for charitable and noncharitable political purposes in violation of tax codes.

The chamber, often using expensive mass-market radio and TV spots, has weighed in on many major public policy debates in recent months, including the Obama administration’s health care policy, business regulations, campaign finance laws and Internet rules, as well as job creation and the threat of tax hikes. On many issues, it has pushed for less government regulation in favor of free-market incentives.

Now the chamber’s political arm is turning to the November elections, and it expects to spend $50 million or more to push pro-business candidates, usually Republicans. As part of a wave of new commercials broadcast this week, the chamber’s California affiliate attacked Senator Barbara Boxer — a Democrat running for re-election against Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard — and accused Ms. Boxer of “destroying jobs” by voting against business.

Cyrus Mehri, a Washington lawyer who brought the I.R.S. complaint on behalf of U.S. Chamber Watch, said in an interview that the chamber’s current political activities were, in effect, being underwritten with money intended for charitable work.

The complaint focuses on loans and grants totaling about $18 million that were made beginning in 2003 to a nonprofit affiliate, the National Chamber Foundation, by the Starr Foundation, a charity started by the founder of A.I.G. and now led by Maurice R. Greenberg, the insurer’s former chairman.

Lawyers for Chamber Watch said their research, based largely on public tax filings, found that none of the principal on some $12 million in loans had been paid back and that the money appeared to have been given to the chamber’s foundation for unrestricted use.

The lawyers said that the money, in violation of nonprofit restrictions, was ultimately funneled to the chamber itself and used to finance broader political causes, including support for legal tort reform to shield companies like A.I.G. from liability. Mr. Greenberg himself had worked to promote restrictions on lawsuits, the complaint notes.

“You have millions of dollars improperly going to the chamber,” said Mr. Mehri, who drafted the complaint with Gail M. Harmon, a Washington lawyer specializing in tax law. “This is not a technical violation.”

But Stan Harrell, chief financial officer for the Chamber of Commerce, said in an interview Friday that the chamber’s lawyers and its accountants at Ernst & Young had reviewed the Starr Foundation funding and found that it complied with all relevant tax law.

“We’ve never had an issue, period,” Mr. Harrell said. He said that Chamber Watch, which was created by a federation of five unions called Change to Win, was simply trying to create trouble for the chamber because of its opposing political views.

“That’s democracy. From time to time, people make allegations,” he said. “If their real interest was proper accounting, they’d be talking to us. This is political.”

Mr. Harrell said that the funding from the Starr Foundation was listed in tax documents as a loan only in the most technical sense and that it was never intended to be paid back. Instead, he said, the money was restricted for long-term use on educational and research projects as part of the chamber’s capital plan and was invested by the chamber to ensure the Starr Foundation a set rate of return.

“We wanted to make sure we guaranteed the investment return,” he said. “Legally, that has to be represented as a loan. This was all done very scrupulously. If anything, we overdisclosed the transaction” in the group’s federal tax returns, he said.

OCTOBER

On October 5, ThinkProgress exposes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for directing foreign funds into the general account it uses for political expenditures to defeat progressive candidates.

On October 7, MoveOn, Public Citizen, and other progressive organizations protest the Chamber’s plan to spend $75 million against progressive candidates, and their lack of transparency over foreign money, in front of Chamber headquarters in Washington D.C.

NY AG goes after laundering:

Founded in 1967, NCF was created to provide in-depth analyses of critical economic and policy issues facing the nation. NCF has founded a number of programs to address emerging critical issues. In the early 1980?s, NCF established the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in response to President Reagan’s Democracy Initiative. Today, CIPE continues to strengthen the democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. It became a stand-alone affiliate of the U.S. Chamber in 1985.

During the next twenty years, NCF has founded several other programs including the Investment for Growth initiative (now the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness) to response to the complex regulations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2004, and the Intellectual Property initiative, which become the Global Intellectual Property Initiative (GIPC) in 2008.

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Margaret Spellings serves as Executive Vice President of NCF. In this capacity Spellings provides both strategic and ongoing management leadership to the Foundation, including critical support around the Chamber’s American Free Enterprise. Dream Big. campaign. Spellings joined the Chamber in April 2009 as a Senior Advisor to the President and CEO. Before this, Spellings served as Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. Spellings previously served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she aided in the development and passage of the NoChild Left Behind Act. Prior to this, she worked for six years as Senior Advisor to then-Governor Bush, developing and implementing the Governor’s education reforms. She continues to work as the President and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company, a Washington, D.C.-based strategic and public policy consulting firm.

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USCoC front: Margaret Spellings serves as Executive Vice President of NCF. In this capacity Spellings provides both strategic and ongoing management leadership to the Foundation, including critical support around the Chamber’s American Free Enterprise. Dream Big. campaign. Spellings joined the Chamber in April 2009 as a Senior Advisor to the President and CEO. Before this, Spellings served as Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. Spellings previously served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she aided in the development and passage of the NoChild Left Behind Act. Prior to this, she worked for six years as Senior Advisor to then-Governor Bush, developing and implementing the Governor’s education reforms. She continues to work as the President and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company, a Washington, D.C.-based strategic and public policy consulting firm.

Margaret Spellings followed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rod_Paige" title="Rod Paige">Rod Paige</a> as Secretary of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Education" title="Department of Education" class="mw-redirect">Department of Education</a> in the second term of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">George W. Bush administration</a>. She had previously served as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Bush</a>'s White House Domestic Policy Adviser. She is also a trustee of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars" title="Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars</a>.

She is described as "So low-key that most people don't even know she exists, [however] the former Margaret La Montagne has been Bush's alter ego on education issues for more than a decade." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/whoswho.html#Spellings" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/whoswho.html#Spellings" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

According to her official White House biography, "Prior to her White House appointment, Margaret Spellings worked for six years as Governor George W. Bush's Senior Advisor, with responsibility for developing and implementing the Governor's education policy. Prior to her work in the Texas Governor's Office, Margaret worked as Political Director in President Bush's first successful gubernatorial campaign in 1994. She also worked as Associate Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Association_of_School_Boards" title="Texas Association of School Boards">Texas Association of School Boards</a>. Other previous experience includes work for Texas Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_P._Clements&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William P. Clements (page does not exist)">William P. Clements</a> and for members of the Texas House of Representatives. Margaret is a graduate of the University of Houston." <a href="http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_414.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_414.html" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

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In a January 2007 speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Spellings said,

<table class="cquote" style="margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="20" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px;">“</td><td valign="top" style=" border: none; padding: 4px 10px;">Everybody here knows that before this act became law, kids often moved from grade to grade, and nobody knew whether or not they had learned to read, write, add, or subtract. We invested billions of dollars and basically just hoped for the best. The lack of accountability helped create an achievement gap where poor and minority students lagged far behind their peers. Not once in all my travels have I met a parent who didn't want their child learning on grade level now — let alone by 2014. I know I do, and I'm sure every parent in this room agrees.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</td><td valign="bottom" width="20" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px;">”</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Controversy overseeing student loan programs</h3>

On May 10, 2007, Spellings testified before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Education_and_Labor" title="United States House Committee on Education and Labor" class="mw-redirect">House Education and Labor Committee</a> responding to criticism from New York Attorney General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a> that the Education Department had been "asleep at the switch" in overseeing student loan programs, allowing corruption and conflicts of interest to spread.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings#cite_note-cnn-050407-7">[8]</a> Spellings has further gone on record to say that she is disregarding the suggestion by the Inspector General to hold the loan companies accountable for their gaffe.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings#cite_note-Chronicle_Higher_Education-8">[9]</a>

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<li>President George W. Bush, "<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/leadership/bio_414.html" class="external text" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/leadership/bio_414.html" rel="nofollow">Margaret Spellings -- White House Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy</a>", undated, accessed January 2005.</li>

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<li>Amy Goldstein, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2951-2001Mar27&notFound=true" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2951-2001Mar27&notFound=true" rel="nofollow">Bush's Schools Guru Expands Her Education. U.S. Policy Aide's Portfolio Covers Range of Issues</a>, Washington Post, March 28, 2001.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040305.html" class="external text" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040305.html" rel="nofollow">Margaret Spellings on Ask the White House</a>", March 5, 2004.</li>

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