charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school Southeast Academy in Norwalk is a public charter school offering a high school education with a military and law enforcement focus to a diverse and coeducational student body. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026 After hours of witness testimony and pages of evidence, a struggling Oklahoma City charter school still has not convinced a state board that it should be allowed to stay open for another year. Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 12 May 2026 San Antonio Spurs legend George Gervin and his sister, Barbara Gervin Hawkins, co-founded the George Gervin Academy 30 years ago as a first-generation charter school from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2026 Should anything change about how the county handles charter school approvals or oversight? Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter school
Noun
  • Basil Billings, 63, is a reading teacher at Dillard High School, a 6-12 magnet school in Fort Lauderdale.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Before moving to the online school in eighth grade, Clark attended middle school at San Diego Creative and Performing Arts School, a public magnet school with a focus on visual and performing arts.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Huntington Beach is making the most of its second chance in postseason high school baseball.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2026
  • Not bad for a girl won won’t start high school until this fall.
    Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • In the late 1980s, about 70% of public school students and over 85% of teachers were white.
    David Blazar, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
  • Senate Bill 2427 will impact K-12 students at Illinois' roughly 850 public school districts starting with the 2027-2028 school year.
    Megan De Mar, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.
    Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Vais has coached a majority of Arvada West’s current seniors and a few of the Wildcats’ juniors, including his son Cooper, since that group was in elementary school.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • And Mario Thompson, an elementary school principal who has been intimately involved in all his daughters’ careers, is having to negotiate all this on the fly.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Nadal is also continuing to give back to the next generation of tennis stars with his Rafa Nadal Academy, which includes both a tennis academy and an accredited primary and secondary school.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • Not only is Irish the Republic’s first official language, and compulsory from primary through to secondary school, it is required for entry into the civil service, and it is supported by its own radio station (Raidió na Gaeltachta) and TV station (TG4), and a range of promotional bodies.
    Big Think, Big Think, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • With only about a month left before graduation, eligible high school seniors across Los Angeles County still have time to claim scholarship funding worth up to $1,500 to pay for college, trade school or other education expenses.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • An online streamer raising money to build a trade school program for underserved kids was hit by a car during his cross-country fundraising walk — and his livestream captured it all.
    Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026

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