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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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