{"id":453287,"date":"2026-10-01T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453287\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:44:10","slug":"lubbock-cooper-isd-mourning-death-of-cte-director-dr-sarah-allen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453287\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock-Cooper ISD mourning death of CTE Director Dr. Sarah Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock-Cooper ISD\u2019s director of career and technical education, Dr. Sarah Allen, has died. The district announced her death on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1697151942418846&amp;set=a.488310299969689\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1697151942418846&amp;set=a.488310299969689\">Facebook page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Allen worked with Lubbock-Cooper ISD as a teacher and director for 15 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Services for Allen will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 10 a.m. at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Allen established the district\u2019s Culinary Arts program, starting with an after-school cooking club and developing it into what the district called one of the most respected school culinary programs in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Allen was named National Teacher of the Month in 2021 and Texas Family and Consumer Science Teacher of the Year in 2024, according to the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBeyond her impressive achievements as an educator, Dr. Allen was a deeply cherished friend and colleague, and an inspiration and cheerleader for all students. She opened doors for Lubbock-Cooper students and staff, loved them, advocated for them, and introduced them to opportunities they may not have even known existed without her guidance and encouragement,\u201d the district shared. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The district extended thoughts and prayers to Allen\u2019s family, staff, students and families \u201cwhose lives she touched,\u201d according to the Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock-Cooper ISD\u2019s director of career and technical education, Dr. Sarah Allen, has died. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[155750,163,319,251,168,170,169,36940,57311],"class_list":["post-453287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-dr-sarah-allen","tag-education","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-cooper","tag-lubbock-cooper-isd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453287","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=453287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}