Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the nation's education chief.

Paige became the superintendent of schools of HISD in 1994.

While he was superintendent, Dr. Paige led the district to enter into contracts with private schools to use them to teach some HISD students rather than placing those students into overcrowded public schools.

1962 ) became superintendent of HISD when Rod Paige was nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Education in 1994.

Gonzalez served until Rod Paige became the superintendent.

* Rod Paige, former superintendent, became the United States Secretary of Education

Rod Paige became superintendent of Houston Independent School District in 1994 ; during his seven-year tenure the district became very well known for high test scores, and in 2001 Paige was asked to become Secretary of Education for the new George W. Bush administration.

In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell.

In the 1856-57 session, Republicans in control of the New York State Legislature at Albany shortened Wood's second term of office from two years to one, and created a Metropolitan Police Force, with Frederick Talmadge as superintendent, to replace Wood's corrupt Municipal Police.

The water wars began when Frederick Eaton was elected mayor of Los Angeles in 1898, and appointed his friend, William Mulholland, the superintendent of the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ( LADWP ).

His tutors were chosen by Mazarin, who was created the superintendent of the prince's education by his mother.

Shortly after this, the position of assistant superintendent was created over the Portland Public Schools.

While Eaton was the Los Angeles Mayor, from 1898 — 1900, he created the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and appointed William Mulholland as superintendent and Chief Engineer.

The maternal great-grandfather, John Walser, was the first superintendent of the municipality created in 1801.

Leif Crozier, the newly appointed NWMP superintendent and commander of North-Western Saskatchewan's forces, requested immediate reinforcement to Fort Carlton because he feared the growing instability created by Riel and the ever growing possibility of a First Nations uprising.

In 1884, a state Board of Education was created and a county superintendent elected by popular vote to replace the appointed commissioner.

Abraham Wivell created an improved design, including an escape chute, after becoming superintendent of the " Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire.

It became known as the Armory Gardens after park superintendent Theodore Wirth created a formal design that included a U. S. National Guard armory ( Kenwood Armory ) for Spanish War Volunteers.

James Madison, Secretary of State, created a separate Patent Office within the State Department and he appointed Dr. William Thornton as its first superintendent in May 1802.

The rank of deputy superintendent ( DSP ) or assistant commissioner of police ( ACP ) was created in 1876 as the policy of Indianisation was introduced.

It was created by ABC superintendent Charles Hutchison, who envisioned Whitney to be a vocational school.

These included a free textbook program for schoolchildren, an idea advanced by John Sparks Patton, the Claiborne Parish school superintendent.

" The superintendent noted that " the uprooting of culturally disadvantaged students to schools where the educational program is planned for the middle class would have damaging effects on our community's children.

It is part of the Lagunitas School District, unique in that it operates three alternative elementary programs and a traditional middle school program on two connected campuses with one superintendent ( Larry Enos ), one principal ( Christian Francis ), and one school board ( Denise Santa Cruz-Bohmani, Stephanie O ' Brien, Steve Rebscher, Christopher Sabec, and Richard Sloan ).

", # 276 ), another episode about his life in a New York apartment building in which his superintendent turned out to be the head of a death squad in Brazil (“ The Super ”, # 323 ) and more recently a segment on the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay called “ Habeas Schmabeas ” (# 331 ) This last program earned him the Peabody Award in 2007.

For example, a Non Profit Organization presents the need for a capital fund-raising campaign to benefit the victims of a recent tragedy ; a school district superintendent presents a program to parents about the introduction of foreign-language instruction in the elementary schools ; an artist demonstrates decorative painting techniques to a group of interior designers ; a horticulturist shows garden club members or homeowners how they might use native plants in the suburban landscape ; a police officer addresses a neighborhood association about initiating a safety program.

In 1932, after the onset of the Great Depression caused the Public Education Association to withdraw the funding that had allowed the school to exist within the New York City public school system, William O ' Shea, the superintendent of schools – who had previously tried to close down the program because of its progressive ideas – announced that the school would be eliminated because of a budgetary crisis.

Mother Rose Curran, a nurse and innovative superintendent of Mercy Hospital, served as Mother General and introduced the cooperative degree program between Mercy Hospital and Carlow University.

This program includes a revamped Math and Science curriculum in a holistic K-12 approach involving the superintendent, the board of education and the teachers ' union.

March was the first American superintendent over the volunteer reading program of the Oxford English Dictionary, thus providing valuable support to James Murray in the compilation of this monumental work.

In 1956, park superintendent Edward Hummel managed to get the Foothills Parkway project included in the National Park Service's Mission 66 program, assuring early construction funds.

Developed by Carleton Washburne, who was the district superintendent, and inspired by John Dewey's work in the University of Chicago Laboratory School, the plan attempted to expand educational focus to creative activities and emotional and social development, using a program of a type that later became known as " programmed instruction.

The district superintendent stated, in February 2006, that " the only other program that we know of like this is in Australia ".

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

In 1808, soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, into which Hesse-Kassel had been incorporated by Napoleon.

In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.

Another local asylum was " Lawn House ", the home and privately-run asylum of Dr John Conolly, which he opened after retiring as superintendent of Hanwell Asylum.

In 1850, the Iron Company engaged James Holmes to serve as superintendent of the nail factory which had just been constructed.

The borough was named in 1889 for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company ( glen is the Scottish word for valley ), which mined in that area.

It was named for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company, the enterprise which initiated mining operations in the area.

Pablo de Olavide was appointed superintendent and about forty new settlements were established of which the most notable was La Carolina, which has a perfectly rectangular grid design.

Upon Mazarin's return, Fouquet demanded and received as reward the office of superintendent of the finances ( 1653 ), a position which, in the unsettled condition of the government, threw into his hands not merely the decision as to which funds should be applied to meet the demands of the state's creditors, but also the negotiations with the great financiers who lent money to the king.

Holberg supported the idea of the academy, worked out suggestions to which academic direction it would take and was asked by the king's superintendent to refer some professors for the school.

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

Set in 1984 in New York, Old Enough is the story of a teenage girl, Karen Bruckner, from the " wrong side of the tracks " ( played by Harvest ), whose father ( played by Aiello ) is the superintendent of the rundown apartment complex in which they live.

In 1870 he became chief pastor and superintendent at the University of Jena and soon afterwards professor ordinarius of theology, but in 1875 he was called to the chair of systematic theology at Berlin, having made his name by a series of articles on New Testament criticism and Johannine and Pauline theology, which appeared in Adolf Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie, and by his Der Paulinismus, published in 1873.

In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan and an Adventist, used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine.

Pablo de Olavide was appointed superintendent and about forty new settlements were established of which the most notable was La Carolina, which has a perfectly rectangular grid design.

A short time after they are approved in the superintendent registrar's office, a short non-religious ceremony takes place which the registrar, the couple and two witnesses must attend ; guests may also be present.

Many Orient Line appointments followed including: publicity manager in January 1927 ; acting manager of the Melbourne office in May 1928 ; passenger and publicity superintendent ; temporary business manager Brisbane in April 1931 ; of the Melbourne office, which became permanent in December 1933 ; and the Sydney office in 1937.

Before the end of the year he had assumed full control of mining operations as the superintendent of the Morris Run Coal Company, a position of authority which he held for the remainder of his working life.

In 1827 Knight was forced to give up publishing, and became the superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828.

Political pressure, which took the guise of accusing Langford of neglect, forced the removal of Yellowstone's first superintendent in 1877.

Winslow's school system is run by the superintendent of schools for AOS 92 which resides in the adjacent city of Waterville.