{"id":227577,"date":"2026-03-30T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:58:07","slug":"dallas-isd-to-offer-tuition-free-pre-k-next-school-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227577\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas ISD to offer tuition-free pre-K next school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95804\" class=\"wp-image-95804 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774907886_952_N1803P47005H.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-95804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Metro Newspaper Service.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas ISD will officially offer tuition-free pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds next school year.<\/p>\n<p>The school board voted unanimously at the March 26 board meeting to approve the change.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the district only provides free pre-K to students who qualify. Those qualifications include military households, low-income families, non-English learners, and children of Dallas ISD teachers,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/education\/2026-03-27\/dallas-isd-free-universal-pre-k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> according to an article from KERA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remaining families paid tuition rates, with the full-day rate at $5,500 for the 2025-26 school year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasisd.org\/departments\/early-learning\/pre-k-eligibility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Dallas ISD website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think this is a good opportunity,\u201d chief academic officer Angie Gaylord said at a March 12 board briefing. \u201cWe know when we get kids early, they do better. We also know that our retention rates for pre-K are great, and our retention rates for parents that were already paying tuition, it\u2019s like 92%, are still staying with us. So we feel like this is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Registration to take advantage of the new pre-K option for the 2026-27 school year opens April 1.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774907887_695_4b7788cb0990e4978f03f293513e201327c04def34eb630c23899a78f7ca98bf.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Metro Newspaper Service. Dallas ISD will officially offer tuition-free pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-227577","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227577","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=227577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}