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Sunday school

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The City Commission in September controversially opted to sell the landmark for $10 to a public charter school that has pledged to renovate it and provide unspecified programming in the future, though precise plans have not been announced.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
The upcoming school year is still weeks away for many districts, but the first day of classes has already been delayed for a charter school in Camden, New Jersey.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of charter school

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In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.

— Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Part of the summer will be preparing George for what is ahead at secondary school, namely from William, who also attended Eton.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 29 July 2026

Definition of secondary school

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After-school programs geared toward transitional kindergarten or elementary school students can also be important for a neighborhood.

— Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The first day of classes for the upcoming school year has been pushed back in the Bethel Park School District so that the district's new elementary school will be ready for students.

— Jessica Riley, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of elementary school

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In both cases, Parkview would remain a magnet school without a zone, and Hall, which the state Board of Education recently gave the district permission to run as a conversion charter school, would operate as a personalized hybrid learning campus.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2026
Swain scored 1,509 points over four years at Columbus Africentric Early College, a predominantly Black magnet school on the east side of Columbus, Ohio.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026

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Many schools don’t devote nearly enough time to letting kids play, which is one of the key ways primary school-age children learn.

— Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
He was revisited by a vague feeling of physical ineptitude that’d haunted him since childhood; failing to throw the ball properly on sports day at primary school, his father watching.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of primary school

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For 42 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named the annual Super 11, a class of Georgia’s top high school football seniors destined to become the next generation of football stars.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
People with a bachelor’s degree earn a median of 75% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

— John Ketcham, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of high school

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Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, sparking calls from the teachers’ union for a change in approach.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Some help from the state always was going to have to be part of the solution for the nation’s fourth-largest public school system.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of public school

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Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
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

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