{"id":335517,"date":"2026-06-14T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:20:22","slug":"literacy-lubbock-celebrates-ged-graduates-at-mahon-library-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335517\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy Lubbock celebrates GED graduates at Mahon Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; More than a dozen students celebrated earning their GED at Mahon Library on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students and their families attended the ceremony for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\">Literacy Lubbock\u2019s GED program<\/a>, which is free along with other adult literacy programs including GED prep. The programs are supported by volunteers and community partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">William Catalan, a Literacy Lubbock board member who went through the program, said the graduates now have new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey will feel qualified to be able to apply for jobs and different opportunities, now that they have the piece of paper, and it truly means a lot because that\u2019s how I got my start, was just getting a piece of paper saying I was a graduate, and from there, sky was the limit,\u201d Catalan said. \u201cAnd so it definitely means a lot to me now they have the opportunity to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More information about free literacy programs and the GED program is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.literacylubbock.org\/\">Literacy Lubbock\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; More than a dozen students celebrated earning their GED at Mahon Library on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-335517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335517","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=335517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}