West Texas A&M University recently announced that full-time educators and staff in the Region 16 Education Service Center area are now eligible for a 50% discount on tuition and mandatory fees through the new WT Educators Excellence Initiative.

The program opens the door for approximately 8,700 full-time teachers, administrators, librarians, nurses, counselors, paraprofessionals, and Region 16 ESC employees across 60 school districts and three charter schools to pursue undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees at half the cost.

Region 16 employment statistics

Region 16 spans 226 campuses in the Texas Panhandle, serving nearly 80,000 students and employing more than 11,400 staff, including 6,056 full-time teachers, 1,652 paraprofessionals, 432 administrators, about 60 librarians, roug

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