{"id":157487,"date":"2026-02-09T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:33:47","slug":"2-el-paso-isd-students-advance-to-texas-state-spanish-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157487\/","title":{"rendered":"2 El Paso ISD students advance to Texas State Spanish Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Two students from the El Paso Independent School District have advanced to the Texas State Spanish Spelling Bee after excelling at the 2026 Education Service Center Region 19 Regional Spanish Spelling Bee on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheli de Silva from Young Women\u2019s STEAM Research and Preparatory Academy and Ferran Martinez Caloca from Wiggs Middle School earned their spots at the state level. <\/p>\n<p>The regional event challenged participants with Spanish spelling, vocabulary, and pronunciation. <\/p>\n<p>The state competition, celebrating bilingualism and academic excellence, is set for June 4 at the Starlight Event Center in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-va-invites-community-to-send-valentines-cards-to-veterans?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso VA invites community to send Valentine&#8217;s cards to veterans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Two students from the El Paso Independent School District have advanced to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-157487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}