Public-Schools Group Jeers Privatization

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Some National School Boards Association (NSBA) members yesterday booed Education Secretary Margaret Spellings when she mentioned the administration's proposal to help students in chronically failing public schools attend private ones instead.

Sandra Nichols, a member of the Pajaro Valley Unified School Board in Watsonville, Calif., asked Mrs. Spellings to respond to critics who think the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) already is "an effort to privatize our school system" by setting tough standards and then deeming public schools as failing.

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Public-Schools Group Jeers Privatization

"I reject completely ... that this is an effort to privatize American education," Mrs. Spellings responded, arguing the go...

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