charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school Last year, the court unanimously backed a Catholic charity in Wisconsin in a dispute over unemployment tax exemptions for religious groups but deadlocked over whether to allow the church to create the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma. Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026 Signs are now posted at the public charter school to restrict access. Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026 Edwards is planning to move her kindergartner out of LAUSD to attend a charter school that limits screen time next school year. Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 Then there is the district’s deliberate reversal of its charter school co-location policy. Lance Christensen, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter school
Noun
  • They are also required to hold two parent-teacher conferences annually, and students in those attendance zones receive priority points in the district’s magnet school admissions process.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • School breakfast While magnet school funding would decrease by $12 million, Lamont’s proposal for universal free school breakfast for all public school students would cost the same amount — $12 million.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This season, for Kitty, for Yuri, for all of our characters, is really about all of them being on the precipice of adulthood, and transitioning in this final year of being seniors in high school into being adults.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox took the floor for a game in Milwaukee with a headband on, in hopes of throwing his look back to his high school days at Cypress Lakes in Katy.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This year, more than 2,600 OCPS students left public school to use those scholarships, also called vouchers, according to Step Up For Students, which administers most of Florida’s scholarships.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • My father was a public school teacher.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Meyers’ father, Michael, coached for 23 years at grammar schools and high schools on the South Side of Chicago.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect near an elementary school last month in the Northgate area.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • While the Lake Nona name was already used for a high school and middle school, the elementary school was not located in the development itself.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Raducanu attended Newstead Wood School, a highly selective secondary school in Orpington, Greater London.
    Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.
    William McCorkle, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Submissions are being accepted in three categories, from students in grades K-8, high school students, and college and trade school students.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.
    Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026

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