Sunday school

noun

Definition of Sunday schoolnext
as in charter school

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  1. charter school
  2. secondary school
  3. elementary school
  4. magnet school
  5. primary school
  6. high school
  7. public school
  8. common school
Noun
  • Multiple teachers and coaches at El Camino Real have been placed on administrative leave, the latest in a series of changes at the Woodland Hills charter school.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Idea Public Schools, Texas’ largest charter school network, was investigated from 2021 to 2024 by the state’s chief charter school regulator amid allegations of lavish spending on private jets and parachute payments to leaders.
    — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of charter school
Noun
  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Soil samples from the two elementary school campuses, City Terrace and Christopher Dena, exceeded the applicable regulatory screening levels of lead, which were flagged for further evaluation.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Music lessons followed, and English instruction was extended to elementary school students.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • In 2025-2026, when a Hartford student attended a CREC magnet school, Hartford Public Schools received approximately $11,500 for that student.
    — Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of magnet school
Noun
  • Any students attending primary school in either district won't be able to use their phones, while high school students will face restrictions.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • Every Georgia high school football program will try to make history this season, but only a handful can hit century win marks this season.
    — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Through six years of middle and high school, girls undergo rigorous academic training.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Before the Taliban returned to power five years ago — on August 15, 2021 — Mubariz remembered his public school as friendly and relatively open.
    — Fatima Faizi, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
  • With that money, the foundation offered to train 82 Orange County public school teachers for free.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • 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
Definition of common school
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