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Spellings in state selling No Child Left Behind Act renewal.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-FEB-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Spellings in state selling No Child Left Behind Act renewal.(Margaret Spellings)

Article Excerpt
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is on a barnstorming tour of the country to drum up support for the No Child Left Behind Act.

February 14 was Mississippi's turn, where she held a roundtable discussion with education and business leaders, including Gov. Haley Barbour and state Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds.

Anthony Topazi, president and CEO of Mississippi Power Co. and chairman of Momentum Mississippi, told Spellings that his company administers a test to employees who only have a high school education. The test, he said, is at the 9th-and 10th-grade level, yet only 30% of those who...

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