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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. Education secretary, died Tuesday. Former ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige speaks to ...

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, ...

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 – Houston Mayor John Whitmire confirms the former Houston ISD superintendent and U.S. Education Secretary, Rod Paige, died on Tuesday. He was 92. Paige had a distinguished career in public ...

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, ...

Dr. Rod Paige has died, according to the Houston mayor's office. Dr. Paige previously served as the seventh U.S. Secretary of Education. He also previously served as Houston ISD superintendent.

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 ...

The incident occurred at an Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park. A 6-year-old girl died after she was injured in a go-kart accident at a trampoline adventure park in Florida, police said. First ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A 6-year-old girl is dead following a go-karting incident at the Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Port St. Lucie over the weekend, the Port St. Lucie Police Department ...