Is the Seattle School Board dysfunctional? U.S. Chamber of Commerce thinks so
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According to a report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle School Board suffers from churn and conflict, a poor relationship with the superintendent and what one unnamed observer called "micromanagement on steroids." Officials here dispute the findings.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is using problems in Seattle's public-school system as evidence that businesses across the country need to get more involved in school-board elections, but officials here say the national group got its facts wrong.
The three-page "case study" of Seattle Public Schools, released last week, is among the harshest of 13 such reports conducted by the chamber and the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, both conservative business groups.
According to the report, the Seattle School Board
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  Executive Vice President, National Chamber FoundationPresident, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Forum for Policy Innovation
Margaret Spellings serves as Executive Vice President of NCF. In this capacity Spellings provides both strategic and ongoing management leadership to the Foundation, including critical support around the Chamber’s American Free Enterprise. Dream Big. campaign. Spellings joined the Chamber in April 2009 as a Senior Advisor to the President and CEO. Before this, Spellings served as Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. Spellings previously served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she aided in the development and passage of the NoChild Left Behind Act.
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