In the early eighties Margaret Spellings, an ambitious University of Houston grad, arrived in Austin to get involved in politics and quickly ended up working on education issues. (“It doesn’t take you too long to figure out that in state government the action is in education,” she once said.) She got a job as a staffer with the House Committee on Public Education and later as a lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards. In 1995 she became Governor George W. Bush’s chief education adviser.When Bush moved on to the presidency, in 2001, Spellings joined the administration as his assistant for domestic policy. She was one of the chief architects of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, which emphasized standardized tests and significantly…The post Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Isn’t Giving Up On Texas Public Schools appeared first on Texas Monthly.