{"id":193691,"date":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","slug":"students-commit-to-careers-in-education-through-dallas-isd-p-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193691\/","title":{"rendered":"Students commit to careers in education through Dallas ISD P-TECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 200 students in the P-TECH education pathway across Dallas ISD recently received letters of intent, honoring their dedication to building careers in education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehub.dallasisd.org\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC04983-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt size-medium wp-image-80980 alignright lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC04983-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earning a letter of intent is an important achievement and ensures students a teaching position with Dallas ISD after they complete a bachelor\u2019s degree and obtain state certification, with a starting salary of at least $61,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graduates may also qualify for incentives in critical shortage areas, including a $5,000 incentive for SPED self-contained positions, in addition to district benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Through the P-TECH and Early College High School programs, students can explore various career pathways while taking college-level courses and earning up to 60 hours of tuition-free college credit during high school.<\/p>\n<p>These programs allow participants to graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate degree\u2014giving them a strong head start on their college and career goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 200 students in the P-TECH education pathway across Dallas ISD recently received letters of intent, honoring their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1492],"class_list":{"0":"post-193691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193691","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=193691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}