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Recent Examples of public school
The first school opened in Brooklyn in 2011 through a partnership among New York City’s public school system, the City University of New York and IBM.
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Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
The South Jackson Civic Association operates the center, which is housed in the old South Jackson School building, constructed in 1886 as Tullahoma’s first public school.
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Korrin Bishop,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Investigators also allege that the teen had withdrawn from public school in April 2025 and enrolled in online classes.
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Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
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Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2026
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Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
The South Jackson Civic Association operates the center, which is housed in the old South Jackson School building, constructed in 1886 as Tullahoma’s first public school.
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Korrin Bishop,
Southern Living,
1 July 2026
Investigators also allege that the teen had withdrawn from public school in April 2025 and enrolled in online classes.
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Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public school
- high school
- trade school
- junior high school
- common school
- middle school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- senior high school
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The approach of the 250th anniversary has brought up complicated feelings for Galvan, 18, and Olivia Suarez, both of whom just finished high school in Long Beach, California.
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Elle is in high school when her parents relocated to Seattle, and the first season follows her attempts to find a path in the Pacific Northwest, helped along by her mother’s guidance.
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Fortunately, some lenders offer student loans specifically designed for trade school, though they may be labeled as career training loans or something similar.
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More than 90% of the children in the student advocate program were accepted into college, trade school or the military after graduating high school, according to program records.
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Japanese scientists studied university and junior high school soccer players of varying skill levels to study dribbling dynamics, focusing on the scissors feint.
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
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Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.
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Whereas John Wooden or Dean Smith may have figured out how to make it today, Bob Knight would be lucky to keep a job as a gym teacher at a middle school in Homeless, Ohio.
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An announcement over the intercom of the middle school Anderson and her sister, Cassie, attended changed that.
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The students, who were taking their secondary school leaving examinations when they were attacked and abducted, are between 15 and 18 years old.
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As William revealed earlier this year, George has already started boarding—good preparation for what is to come at secondary school.
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Can states ban transgender kids from playing sports in grammar school, when boys and girls routinely play on the same teams?
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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