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March 10, 2005

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings discusses the fiscal year 2006 budget proposal with House appropriators.

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Transcript: Given the fiscal realities, we must target resources wisely, toward flexibility and in particular toward results.

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Transcript: Call it what you will—a challenge, a problem, a crisis—it is an imperative that we give our high school students the tools to succeed in the Twenty-First Century.

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Transcript: The President's $1.2 billion High School Intervention program would help students get the individual attention and academic skills they badly need. These reforms would be designed and directed not by the federal government but by states and school districts themselves.

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