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Sunday school

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as in charter school

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Enrollment is declining across the board in traditional public schools as the national birthrate continues to fall, charter school enrollment remains robust, private school voucher use increases and the number of immigrant students has flatlined.

— Austin Horn July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
His wife, Janine, founded a Philadelphia charter school and is an advocate for school choice.

— Eric Lau, Washington Post, 25 June 2026

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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.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
As William revealed earlier this year, George has already started boarding—good preparation for what is to come at secondary school.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 June 2026

Definition of secondary school

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Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology at Queens College whose research focuses on cultural concepts of time, was in elementary school in Syracuse, New York, at the time and remembers it vividly.

— Deepti Hajela, Fortune, 16 July 2026
The halftime show will also include performances by singer Burna Boy, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and the PS22 Chorus, which is the acclaimed choir of 4th and 5th graders from a public elementary school in Staten Island, New York.

— Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 14 July 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

Definition of magnet school

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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
This has been compounded by massive cuts in international aid and a Taliban government that has sidelined half of Afghanistan’s population, denying women and girls education beyond primary school and banning them from the vast majority of jobs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of primary school

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Push for rehabilitation Wilson's public defender, Donna D'Alessio, said her client had changed his ways and had been making progress behind bars in achieving his high school diploma.

— Julie Hanson, CBS News, 13 July 2026
During his senior year of high school on the Puyallup Reservation, Gerald Dillon traded much of his academic coursework for career training.

— Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026

Definition of high school

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This study addresses the research gap by asking public school principals to share information about their in-service learning opportunities, including the frequency of those opportunities, their subject matter, and their usefulness.

— Mac Murray, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
In a 2025 national survey of sixth- through 12th-grade public school teachers, 43% reported used these kinds of apps regularly, while another 27% had tested or experimented with them.

— Brett DeJager, The Conversation, 10 July 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

Definition of common school

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