Margaret Spellings Children Quotations

a victory for children and parents all across the country.

This is a national commitment to you all here in the Gulf Coast, ... We owe each of these precious children, particularly after all they have been through, a high quality education.

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

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.

m working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Also, make sure your children are challenged make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

This is a victory for children and parents all across the country. Chief Judge Friedman's decision validates our partnership with states to close the achievement gap, hold schools accountable and to ensure all students are reading and doing math at grade-level by 2014.