{"id":364979,"date":"2026-07-08T05:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:37:13","slug":"top-fort-worth-education-stories-this-week-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364979\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Fort Worth education stories this week: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FTW_0629Pre-Kprepprogram.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Yamileth Escalera, 4, tosses a red foam cube into a container full of water during a pre-K prep program at Castleberry Elementary School on June 29, 2026. The students had to guess whether their chosen object would float or sink when dropped in water.\" alt=\"Yamileth Escalera tosses a red foam cube into a container full of water during a pre-K prep program at Castleberry Elementary School in Fort Worth on June 29, 2026. The students had to guess whether their chosen object would float or sink when dropped in water.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Yamileth Escalera, 4, tosses a red foam cube into a container full of water during a pre-K prep program at Castleberry Elementary School on June 29, 2026. The students had to guess whether their chosen object would float or sink when dropped in water.<\/p>\n<p>                Elvis Martinez-Cartagena<\/p>\n<p>            FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM<\/p>\n<p>From summer literacy camps to a new Bible reading mandate for Texas classrooms, education headlines across Fort Worth and the state covered a wide range of issues this week. Programs targeting early learners, gun safety and curriculum changes all made news.<\/p>\n<p>Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published July 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yamileth Escalera, 4, tosses a red foam cube into a container full of water during a pre-K prep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-364979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364979","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=364979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}