CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Kaye Stripling

Professional Preparation

Biography:

Dr. Kaye Stripling was named Superintendent of Schools of the Houston Independent School District to succeed Dr. Rod Paige when he became the U.S. Secretary of Education in January 2001. In appointing her, the Board of Education expressed its confidence in Dr. Stripling's ability to maintain the district wide progress that Dr. Paige set in motion.

Kaye Stripling got her Bachelor of Science degree at Texas Woman's University in 1962. She then earned a master's and doctorate in education at the University of Houston, specializing in Special Education (M.Ed, 1967) and Curriculum and Instruction (Ed.D., 1985).

Dr. Stripling joined HISD in 1964 as a teacher of the educable mentally retarded at Lee Elementary School. Since then she has taught at Looscan and Atherton Elementary Schools and served as the principal at Burbank, Parker, and West University Elementary Schools and Pershing Middle School. Named the District Superintendent of District XIV in 1987, she then served as HISD's Assistant Superintendent of Staff Development and oversaw the Rice School/La Escuela Rice before being appointed District Superintendent of HISD's Southwest Administrative District in 1995.

Dr. Stripling has long been recognized as an active advocate for teachers and, in her first State of the Schools address, publicly declared her commitment to making 2001 the Year of the Teacher in HISD.

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