{"id":454049,"date":"2026-10-02T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454049\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:02:10","slug":"lubbock-cooper-mourning-beloved-educator-sarah-allen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454049\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock-Cooper mourning beloved educator Sarah Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Sarah Allen, director of Career and Technical Education for Lubbock-Cooper ISD, has died at age 46.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Allen worked at Lubbock-Cooper for 15 years, first as a classroom teacher and later as the CTE director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The district says Allen started the district\u2019s culinary arts program as an after-school cooking club and grew it into one of the most respected school culinary programs in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was recognized as a National Teacher of the Month in 2021 and as Texas Family and Consumer Science Teacher of the Year in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her funeral service is Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church, near Indiana Avenue and 98th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Sarah Allen, director of Career and Technical Education for Lubbock-Cooper ISD, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-454049","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\/454049","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=454049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}