{"id":330995,"date":"2025-10-25T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330995\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T07:00:25","slug":"yes-prep-public-schools-launches-4-year-80m-campaign-to-expand-across-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330995\/","title":{"rendered":"YES Prep Public Schools launches 4-year, $80M campaign to expand across Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesprep.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YES Prep Public Schools<\/a> has launched a new four-year, $80 million campaign dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesprep.org\/support-yes\/the-power-of-yes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of YES<\/a>,&#8221; officials announced in an Oct. 23 news release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gist <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The campaign will allow the Houston charter school system to invest in technology and facilities while working toward becoming an &#8220;A&#8221;-rated district. Per the release, the initiative will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add 5,000 new school seats<\/li>\n<li>Complete YES Prep\u2019s full pre-K-12 feeder pattern<\/li>\n<li>Fund the construction of six new schools<\/li>\n<li>Rebuild three of YES Prep\u2019s oldest campuses<\/li>\n<li>Invest in innovative programs, bilingual education and tools that prepare students for college, careers and leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The initiative also aims to highlight student stories, deepen family engagement, expand partnerships with businesses and nonprofits, and mobilize community investment to create change, per the news release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Power of YES is comprehensive; it is &#8216;yes&#8217; to excellence and results, &#8216;yes&#8217; to opportunity and access, and ultimately &#8216;yes&#8217; to fulfilling the promise of our mission for every student,\u201d YES Prep CEO Mark DiBella said in a statement. \u201cThis campaign is a celebration of what\u2019s possible when families, educators and the community come together to support our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Stay tuned <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Specific locations for the six new schools to be built were not included in the news release.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YES Prep Public Schools has launched a new four-year, $80 million campaign dubbed \u201cThe Power of YES,&#8221; officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[407,4345,164228,358,3187,164229],"class_list":{"0":"post-330995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-power-of-yes","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-yes-public-schools"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115433519508431244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}