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Rod Paige

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008
  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008
  • News

    March 11, 1999
  • News

    February 15, 2001

    Changing of the HISD Guard

    Positions open as top Paige deputies depart on the Northbound Train

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Learning How to Survive (at) CEP

    HISD and a paid trustee get entangled in the spreading empire of a private firm touting safe alternative schools for troubled kids. So why are some students and parents so scared?

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Obama's Education Pick Brings Back Memories Of HISD's Rod Paige

    Barack Obama has truly broken the mold in picking a Secretary of Education -- he's chosen the superintendent of the largest school district in his home state.Wait -- that sounds familiar. George W. Bush did the same thing, of course, when he tapped HISD's Rod Paige to come to Washington in 2000.The ... More >>

  • News

    July 7, 1994

    Anatomy of an Intervention

    HISD has a plan for reforming problem schools. But when it reached Bastian Elementary, not everything went smoothly.

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    The Insider

    HISD has a plan for reforming problem schools. But when it reached Bastian Elementary, not everything went smoothly.

  • News

    August 31, 1995

    Gayle Force

    A vigorous advocate for teachers and the bane of HISD administrators, confrontational union boss Gayle Fallon wields a growing power over the direction of Houston's public schools

  • Calendar

    January 11, 1996

    Press Picks

    A vigorous advocate for teachers and the bane of HISD administrators, confrontational union boss Gayle Fallon wields a growing power over the direction of Houston's public schools

  • News

    March 28, 1996

    The Insider

    A vigorous advocate for teachers and the bane of HISD administrators, confrontational union boss Gayle Fallon wields a growing power over the direction of Houston's public schools

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    The Insider

    A vigorous advocate for teachers and the bane of HISD administrators, confrontational union boss Gayle Fallon wields a growing power over the direction of Houston's public schools

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    The Insider

    A vigorous advocate for teachers and the bane of HISD administrators, confrontational union boss Gayle Fallon wields a growing power over the direction of Houston's public schools

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    What's Wrong With Wheatley?

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    What Went Wrong at the Rice School?

    The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    The Insider

    The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

  • News

    September 11, 1997

    The Insider

    The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Letters

    The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Insider

    The Rice School/La Escuela Rice was a much-touted experiment by HISDand Rice University. So far, the results haven't been encouraging.

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    (Pay)checks and (Im)balances

    Fat starting salaries! Hefty raises! HISD says its administrators deserve them.

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    All Together Now

    Civic, school and business leaders unite to try to pass a massive HISD bond election

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The Fix Is In

    Are educators cheating on TAAS? Is anyone going to stop them?

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    News Hostage

    Are educators cheating on TAAS? Is anyone going to stop them?

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Children, Prepare Your Desk Manuals!

    Paige DMPs on the HISD bureaucracy

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    After-School Aftershocks

    Advocates unite to tell HISD and Houston not to overlook vital program

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    HISD's $2 Million Man

    A shadowy California consultant rakes in school district cash

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Letters

    A shadowy California consultant rakes in school district cash

  • News

    January 24, 2008
  • News

    April 19, 2007

    Locked & Unloaded

    The NRA, the ACLU and HPD

  • News

    March 15, 2007

    School Discipline, Lisa Nowak, Terry Abbott, GHCVB Gay Ads

    Some people still favor Texas's zero-tolerance rules

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    Helping Hands

    Rod Paige is still milking the Bush connection

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Rod Paige is still milking the Bush connection

  • News

    May 5, 2005
  • News

    July 24, 2003

    Paige Boy Returns

    HISD's most aggressive marketer comes back to help

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Letters

    HISD's most aggressive marketer comes back to help

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Letters

    HISD's most aggressive marketer comes back to help

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    Dumb and Dumber

    Rod Paige does no better when he doesn't have an answer than when he does

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    A Paige from the Past?

    A lawsuit accuses HISD's former chief and a trustee of influence-peddling

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Hail to the Chiefs

    Rod Paige searches for the perfect image, and CEP wiggles in even closer to the power source -- wherever it can find it

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Letters

    Residency Woes, Good God!, Organ-ic Giver

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Letters

    Shining Example, KTRU Blues, Not So Nice

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Letters

    Rice Inc., Rodeo Rubbish, Thy Rod and Thy Staff

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Puff It Up

    Anchors have feelings - and a flair for fashion!

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Spring Time for Ben and Betti?

    Time's running out on commutation efforts

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Days of Paige

    Did Bush pick a master educator - or an overpaid front man?

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Making (Up) the Grade

    This HISD program teaches a big lesson: Don't question what the district touts

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Cutting Class

    Park trees make a last stand against HISD expansion

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    The Insider

    Park trees make a last stand against HISD expansion

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    The Curriculum Question

    Businessman John Privett thought he had a solution to the problems of some of Houston's troubled schools. The parents wanted to try it. The teachers wanted to try it. But HISD administrators said no.

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Rod Paige, Late Of HISD & The W Administration, Thinks The State Board Of Ed Has Gone Off The Deep End

    Rod Paige, flaming liberal and commie-lover​Former Houston school superintendent Rod Paige has emerged from his lucrative consulting and speaking career to criticize the right-wingers trying to politicize the state's curriculum.Several sites have been liveblogging or otherwise updating today's mee ... More >>

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