{"id":195390,"date":"2026-03-08T04:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195390\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:32:06","slug":"two-el-paso-educators-have-been-named-finalists-for-the-2026-h-e-b-excellence-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195390\/","title":{"rendered":"Two El Paso educators have been named finalists for the\u00a02026 H-E-B Excellence in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-E-B announced that 10 North Texas educators are finalists for the\u00a02026 H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards,\u00a0which awards cash prizes to educators who go the extra mile to serve their students and their communities.\u00a0Teachers, counselors and principals\u00a0received the news from H-E-B representatives during surprise visits to the schools this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two finalists are Dr. Melissa Saenz who is a principle\u00a0from Montwood Middle School of the Socorro Independent School District. Seanz won one-thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p> Alejandro De La Pena, from the Parkland Pre-Engineering Middle School, of the\u00a0Ysleta\u00a0Independent School District also won one-thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H-E-B announced that 10 North Texas educators are finalists for the\u00a02026 H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards,\u00a0which awards cash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-195390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195390","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=195390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}