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Margaret Spellings, George W. Bush Foundation President, Calls For Education Legislation Transparency

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

At a time when there exists an unequal distribution of high-quality teachers and public school closures are being labeled as human rights violations, experts agree improvements in education legislation are a pressing necessity.

Margaret Spellings, the former George W. Bush Administration Education Secretary, joined Huffpost Live at the Aspen Ideas Festival to recommend solutions to the education crisis. Spellings, who was recently appointed as the President of the George W. Bush Foundation, advocated for Congress to reflect more specifically on past legislative results when developing education bills — more specifically the No Child Left Behind Act, which she helped design during her time under the Bush Administration.

“No Child Left Behind, as I said, is way past due for, you know, building on the lessons that we’ve learned in that period of time and making some tweeks and some improvements, and we can and we should do that,” she told Ahmed Shibab-Eldin of HuffPost Live.

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George W. Bush library set to open at SMU

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By hnn

The construction fence is down; the heavy equipment is gone.

After 2 1/2 years of construction — and several years of planning — work on the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the edge of Southern Methodist University is down to the finishing touches.

Workers are busy arranging exhibits, beginning the last phase of landscaping and addressing other final details before the center, a tribute to the 43rd president, is unveiled to an invitation-only audience April 25 and to the general public May 1.

“What was a dream four years ago is today a reality,” Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation, has said.

The reality is a 226,560-square-foot center that houses a library and a museum, presidential archives, a public policy institute, the Bush foundation and a 15-acre park, all honoring Bush’s two terms in office….

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

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George W. Bush Presidential Library Set To Open May 1

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

The George W. Bush Presidential Library will open to the public on May 1, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Monday.

The library honoring the 43rd president of the United States is located at Southern Methodist University, former first lady Laura Bush‘s alma-mater, in Dallas. An invitation-only audience will get a first look at the 226,560 square-foot center on April 25.

The library is the third presidential library built in Texas, following the libraries honoring George H. W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson. The Star-Telegram reports that many of Bush’s personal items will be displayed at the library’s museum, including cowboy hats, boots, 4 million photos and close to 70 million documents. The center, which took two and a half years to build, will also house a pubic policy institute, a 15-acre park and the George W. Bush Foundation‘s offices.

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