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Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education, university football coach and architect of the "Houston Miracle" as Houston ISD superintendent, has died at 92. As HISD's superintendent from 1994 to ...

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The first Black person to hold that cabinet position, he resigned amid discord over George W. Bush’s major legislative effort to improve public education nationwide. By Robert D. McFadden Rod Paige, ...

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According to a statement from his family, Paige died Tuesday morning at his home with his wife Stephanie at his side. Paige, who made history in 2001 as the nation’s first Black education secretary, ...

Rod Paige, an educator, coach, and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. secretary of education, died Tuesday.

HOUSTON — Dr. Rod Paige, former HBCU football head coach and athletic director, and the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education, died Tuesday at age 92. He was a foundational ...

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