Spellings won't speak the "e" word

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who is visiting states to tout the benefits of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, stayed as far away as she could from the unfolding controversy over whether the word "evolution" should be included in Florida's science standards for schools. The State Board of Education is expected to vote on the new science standards next month.

Spellings said it wasn't her job to make policy decisions like that and said it was up to people such as new Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith. And when asked whether the nation's top education official has a position on whether evolution should be a part of science standards, Spellings replied: "No, I don't."

Spellings is spending most of her day in Tallahassee. She began with an appearance before House members who sit on various education committees talking about NCLB and how it will remain in place even if Congress chooses not to reauthorize it. She spent most of her time congratulating Florida for its education reforms pushed into place by former Gov. Jeb Bush, the younger brother of President Bush, who made NCLB  a key part of his domestic agenda.

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[concerned]

anyone who doesn't beleive in evolution should be arrested, tried, convicted and deported.