{"id":78978,"date":"2025-12-07T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78978\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:28:06","slug":"fast-track-to-the-future-5k-1-mile-walk-at-burges-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78978\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track to the Future 5K\/1 mile Walk at Burges High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; Hundreds laced up their running shoes early this morning to run for education.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso ISD Education Foundation held the first annual 5K Saturday morning at Burges High School.  <\/p>\n<p>The funds raised go towards scholarships for high school seniors, and classroom impact grants aimed at supporting both students and teachers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 250 people lined up ready to hit the ground and raises much needed funds to help local students continue on their path to higher learning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re really excited to to to offer this to the community as a way to show our support for the teachers and the students and all the great work that they&#8217;re doing at EPISD,&#8221; said Russell Booth, Director of EPISD Education Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation says that with the success of this year&#8217;s event, they will start planning one for the new school year. <\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; Hundreds laced up their running shoes early this morning to run for education.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-78978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78978","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=78978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}