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February 8, 2008

describes a fellowship program to give public school teachers an opportunity to offer their perspectives and experience to Education Department policy makers.

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Transcript: The U.S. Education Department is offering up to twenty-five public school teachers a seat at the table to discuss the nation's education policies.

Those are the folks who are doing the work in our classrooms every day and their voice is essential in this discussion.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says up to twenty Teaching Ambassador Fellows will work in the classroom in their home school districts, and five will come to Washington next school year.

They'll be exposed to other teachers from around the country and to, obviously, educators here. And I think there'll be a lot of cross-pollination between teachers and between those of us in the policy arena.

More information is available at www.ed.gov or by calling 1-800-USA-LEARN. In Washington, i'm Gregg Wiggins for the U.S. Department of Education.

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Transcript: The U.S. Education Department will offer up to twenty-five public school teachers Teaching Ambassador Fellowships next year.

To offer highly motivated, innovative public school teachers the opportunity to contribute what they know, what they've learned, what they've experienced in their classrooms, and bring it to us at the Department of Education to help us make better policy, to help us do our jobs.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. Some Teaching Ambassador Fellows will continue to work in their home districts, some will come to Washington for the 08-09 school year.

Teachers can help us make better policies.

More information is available at www.ed.gov or by calling 1-800-USA-LEARN. In Washington, i'm Gregg Wiggins for the U.S. Department of Education.

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