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Margaret Spellings

I’m thrilled to announce that former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will speak at the annual Texas Charter Schools Conference. TCSA looks  forward to giving her a Texas-sized, “Welcome Home!”

           ----- David Dunn, Executive Director
                   Texas Charter Schools Association

Margaret Spellings is the President and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company and a leading national expert in public policy, with a special focus on education.  Spellings also serves as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation representing 3 million businesses, and as Executive Vice President of the National Chamber Foundation.  In addition, she serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy.

Spellings is the immediate past United States Secretary of Education, serving from 2005 to 2009.  In that role, she oversaw an agency with a nearly $70 billion budget and over 10,000 employees and contractors.   As a member of the President’s Cabinet, she led the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a historic national initiative to provide enhanced accountability for the education of 50 million U.S. public school students.  On the postsecondary side, Spellings launched a national higher education policy debate and action plan on higher education to improve accessibility, affordability, and accountability in our nation’s colleges and universities, and led the federal government’s efforts to ensure access to student loans amidst turmoil in the credit markets.  She initiated extensive international outreach and collaboration with 23 countries, including leading delegations of university presidents and presidential delegations as well as overseeing the signing of international education agreements with countries such as China, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.

As White House Domestic Policy Advisor from 2001 to 2005, she managed the development of the President’s domestic policy agenda, with oversight of education, health, transportation, justice, housing, and labor policy.  Her achievements include the development and passage of NCLB, oversight of the development of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the development of a comprehensive immigration plan to ensure long-term economic stability and to secure U.S. borders, and numerous other initiatives on health and human services, transportation, labor and housing.

Prior to her service in the White House, Margaret Spellings served as Senior Advisor to then-Governor George W. Bush of Texas, led government relations efforts for the Texas Association of School boards, served in various leadership capacities for the Texas legislature, and worked for local education organizations including Austin Community College.

Spellings serves on the boards of the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Special Olympics International Board of Directors.  She is an experienced public speaker and media personality who speaks with authority on policy and politics to business and civic audiences.  She has appeared on Meet the Press, Celebrity Jeopardy, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the Colbert Report, among others.