Notable Employees and Teachers
- J. Don Boney, former administrator
- Lyndon B. Johnson, a teacher who became the 36th President of the United States
- Laura Bush, a teacher at Kennedy Elementary School who later became the First Lady of the United States
- Alberto Gonzales, chair of the Commission for District Decentralization, later became United States Attorney General
- Edison E. Oberholtzer, former superintendent, founder and first president of the University of Houston
- Rod Paige, former superintendent, became the United States Secretary of Education
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“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
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