{"id":230169,"date":"2026-04-01T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:30:08","slug":"open-enrollment-begins-april-1-for-dallas-isds-first-universal-free-pre-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230169\/","title":{"rendered":"Open enrollment begins April 1 for Dallas ISD&#8217;s first universal free pre-K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open enrollment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasisd.org\/departments\/early-learning\/pre-kearly-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas ISD&#8217;s universal free pre-kindergarten program<\/a> begins Wednesday, April 1. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first year Dallas ISD will offer tuition-free pre-K for all 3 and 4-year-olds. It was unanimously approved by the school board at their March 26 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, originally, pre-K cost $2,500 a year for a half day and $5,000 a year for a full day. Free pre-K was previously offered only to students who qualified under federal, state, and district guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas ISD joins <a href=\"https:\/\/enrollment.fwisd.org\/pre-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth ISD<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/district\/departments\/academic-services\/curriculum-and-instruction\/early-childhood-learning\/prek-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arlington ISD<\/a>, which also have free pre-K programs. Their enrollment periods are also open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open enrollment for Dallas ISD&#8217;s universal free pre-kindergarten program begins Wednesday, April 1. This is the first year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,163,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-230169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas","tag-education","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230169","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=230169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}