charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school After Oklahoma approved a request by the Catholic Church to open a charter school in 2023, lawsuits quickly followed. Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025 The law gives school districts financial incentives to partner with outside organizations like nonprofits, universities or charter schools to run low-performing campuses. Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025 Under that law, the state’s 1,000 school districts, charter schools and county education offices must draft student cellphone policies by July 1, 2026 — and administrators can opt for limiting rather than outright banning cellphone use, as in L.A. Unified. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025 His career included overseeing the development of Frank Gehry's IAC building, the renovation of Madison Square Garden and three city charter schools. Jack Smart, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for charter school
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Noun
  • Create a system where the neighborhood school effectively competes with the magnets; at the end of the day, Hartford is stronger with strong neighborhood schools than with strong magnet schools.
    John Q. Gale, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The findings, based on data obtained from open records requests, showed a dip in enrollment at several schools, including most of the district's magnet schools.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Day two of the Texas high school boys basketball UIL state championships are here.
    Charles Baggarly and, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Ryan Rodriguez got his first true glimpse of just how good Carson Beck could be when the two were both still in high school.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾‍♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.
    Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In interviews with The News, parents have repeatedly expressed a desire to remain in the city, but a struggle to make ends meet while waiting for public school.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Many Mennonite families don’t send children to public schools.
    Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The monthly goal is to give away about a thousand books, usually to elementary schools, middle schools and different children’s organizations, or to have students come into the bookstore and clear the shelves themselves.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Prairie Park Elementary, 2711 Kensington Road, is one of ten elementary schools in Lawrence Unified School District 497.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the hardline Islamist group has done an about-face and banned women from going to university, closed secondary schools and beauty salons, and stopped women from working at NGOs, including at the United Nations.
    Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Historic buildings, elementary and secondary schools, manufacturing buildings, agricultural buildings and federal buildings can apply to be exempted.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Americans know that their children can get a free public education and student loans for college or trade schools to advance themselves economically.
    Joseph P. Tomain, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
  • As tuition costs at traditional four-year colleges have skyrocketed, young people have increasingly opted for vocational programs, trade schools and blue-collar jobs.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The series at the time focused on Hayley Mills, who played the title character, and her students at an Indianapolis junior high school.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
  • While days were spent instructing junior high school students in the Washington area, Flack's nights coalesced around her budding music career.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025

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