Public-schools group jeers privatization
Source: By Amy Fagan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, January 30, 2007
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.