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Definition of magnet school
: a school with superior facilities and staff and often a specialized curriculum designed to attract pupils from throughout a city or school district
Examples of magnet school in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web Cynthia Coronado, 22, graduated from Aldine ISD's magnet school, Carver High School for Engineering, Applied Technology and the Arts in 2016.
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Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, "Aldine ISD alumna's painting business takes off after Bad Bunny offers $5K for his portrait," 21 Apr. 2020 Theodore Potter Spanish Immersion School 74, an IPS magnet school on the north side of Indianapolis, is a 50/50, two-way dual immersion model.
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Sorell Grow, Indianapolis Star, "'So much more than a language': How Indianapolis immersion schools prepare students," 3 Mar. 2020 Chirag Mehta, whose daughter and son attend a magnet school on the city’s north side, volunteers with a group called Parents 4 Teachers that has been urging parents to contact Lightfoot’s office every week in support of the teachers union.
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Kathleen Foody, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Chicago teachers may test unions’ ‘social justice’ strategy," 13 Oct. 2019 David Makes Man follows a 14-year-old prodigy from the South Florida projects named David, who attends a magnet school.
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Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Why Today’s Google Doodle Is So Special," 13 Aug. 2019 Lee is the home of a creative and performance art magnet school.
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Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, "New theater spotlights the performing arts in tech town of Huntsville," 3 Feb. 2020 Two recent lawsuits against the Capitol Region Education Council claim the network of Hartford-area magnet schools failed to follow its own policies to protect its students, traumatizing them in the process.
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Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, "Two lawsuits claim CREC schools wrongfully questioned students over shooting threat, sexual abuse," 10 Oct. 2019 More: 'There is no positive to this': JCPS proposals on magnet schools draw praise and criticism
Last year, JCPS green-lighted a $120 million plan to build four new schools in the coming years — three elementary schools and one middle school.
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Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, "JCPS may build a middle school in the East End. Here's how you can give feedback," 15 Jan. 2020 For instance, there are five different formulas for magnet schools.
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Kathleen Megan, courant.com, "Charter schools say state is ‘starving’ them by providing less funding than traditional public schools," 11 Nov. 2019
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