charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school Currently, only Indiana’s multiple charter authorizers have the authority to determine when and where a charter school can be opened. Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025 The move is enabled by the expansion of Florida’s Schools of Hope law, which allows approved charter school operators co-locate or have full access to underused, vacant or surplus district facilities in the attendance zone or within five miles of a persistently low-performing school. Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025 At first, the charter school for neuroatypical kids replaced the program that had been charging Langford’s family $200 a month with one that charged around $1,500 a month, Langford says. Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Sep. 2025 Woolard in 2006 was indicted for conspiring with a Kansas City charter school president in a mortgage and investment fraud scheme that used fake loan documents, inflated appraisals and a sham housing project to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors. Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for charter school
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Noun
  • That has played out in Charlotte, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have made arrests outside the county courthouse, near a magnet school and in other sensitive places.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The public magnet school has an overall score of 97.83/100.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The famed director, who played the instrument in his high school band, also resurfaced the talent for the score of Jaws decades later.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Paul Martinez has seen a lot of baseball, but the long-time high school coach couldn’t wait for Friday night’s Athletics game to start.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Elevate, which consults widely across pro and college sports, said the vehicle was fully funded by private equity firm Velocity Capital Management and the Texas Permanent School Fund (TPSF), a special-purpose government corporation that oversees a nearly $60 billion public school endowment.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The results were about the same from the 2023-24 school year, with public school students' performance on the reading portion of the exam improving by less than a percentage point.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Matt Critell, principal of a Greenville elementary school, told WYFF 4 that Greenville County serves over 80,000 student meals a day, including breakfast, lunch and after-school snacks.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The shooting took place 834 feet from a high school and also close to an elementary school, prosecutors said, explaining the additional charge.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to Florida law, that includes police stations, prisons, polling places, elementary or secondary school buildings and locations where open carry is prohibited by federal law.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the moment, Geisel said, the trade school is fully staffed, but that doesn’t account for the long waitlists its programs have.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • It was always expected that my siblings and I would either go to college or trade school.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Police said the incident began with a physical altercation at a north-area junior high school, which officials did not name.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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