charter school

noun

Definition of charter schoolnext
as in magnet school

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Recent Examples of charter school 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 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 Kaylee attended Borah Elementary with Alivea and Steven before moving on to a charter school and Lake City High School as a teenager, per her obituary. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026 For San Diego, one of those lessons came in 2019 through the Academic Arts and Action, or A3, charter school fraud scheme, which siphoned more than $400 million from public education and ultimately led to the criminal prosecution of 11 individuals. — Malia M Cohen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter school
  1. magnet school
  2. high school
  3. public school
  4. grammar school
  5. elementary school
  6. secondary school
  7. trade school
  8. junior high school
Noun
  • She was bussed across town to attend a magnet school with better resources.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of magnet school
Noun
  • Erika looks on with the malevolent bemusement of a college cheerleader coming back to homecoming to judge her old high school squad.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In 2021, a teen was arrested after wounding two students and injuring two others in a shooting at a high school in Newport News, Virginia.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Traditional public school enrollment in the district is down from 352,000 in 2006-07 to about 217,000 to start this year.
    — Austin Horn August 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Both are overwhelmingly nonwhite, neither a traditional neighborhood public school.
    — Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Lowden and Smith were grammar school classmates and later served time together in Wethersfield.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Can states ban transgender kids from playing sports in grammar school, when boys and girls routinely play on the same teams?
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026
Definition of grammar school
Noun
  • By people at churches, students and teachers at an elementary school, office workers, and anyone walking near the field.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Eyde is an elementary school substitute teacher in the Independence School District, according to a news release from Candice Jamoles, a public affairs specialist for the Department of Justice.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary 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
  • Consider these private options What’s the best way to pay for trade school?
    — Deane Biermeier, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • When participants come into the program, some want to finish a trade school, like HVAC or beauty school, while others may want to improve their grades.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
Definition of trade school
Noun
  • Becerra was quiet and serious when Franco first met him in junior high school, but slowly warmed up to other students.
    — Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • So the Sephora Performance Center might as well be a junior high school gym.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of junior high school

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