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Former Secretary Spellings to National Chamber Foundation

By Alyson Klein — August 07, 2009 1 min read
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Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has taken on a new gig, as the executive vice-president of the , a non-profit arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber has been really active on education issues for a long time, and its views tend to dovetail pretty well with Spellings'; the group has been very supportive of accountability through testing, for instance.

Apparently, Spellings started serving as a senior adviser to the Chamber back in April, even as she was working as the president and CEO of Margaret Spellings and Company, a public policy consulting firm.

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