How to Use common school in a Sentence

common school

noun

• Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• In researching Mann’s common schools and other educational history for our book, two lessons stood out to us.
  — Joseph P. Tomain, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
• 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.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.
  — Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
• The other, equally significant lesson is that the democratic and republican principals that propelled Mann’s vision of the common school have colored many Americans’ assumptions about public schooling ever since.
  — Joseph P. Tomain, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025