charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school Octavious Woodley, a paraprofessional at EPIC Academy, brought some of the charter school's high school students to Rainbow PUSH on Thursday. Darius Johnson, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026 The Dallas-area charter school district sent the UIL its formal notice less than a month after district realignment for the 2026-28 school years was announced. Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026 Now, House Bill 1308 would allow charter schools and the charter school industry to take over empty or underused public school buildings, often at little or no cost. Verdaillia Turner, AJC.com, 25 Feb. 2026 Zac DeJovine, a guide at Alpha School, previously worked for a charter school that used an alternative approach to learning meant to help struggling kids. Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
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Noun
  • They are also required to hold two parent-teacher conferences annually, and students in those attendance zones receive priority points in the district’s magnet school admissions process.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • School breakfast While magnet school funding would decrease by $12 million, Lamont’s proposal for universal free school breakfast for all public school students would cost the same amount — $12 million.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Evidently, Ruth is meant to represent all that is good and pure for eschewing the luxe life for the smaller ambition of being a high school English teacher.
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Godfrey began Cactus Bowls, which sells açai bowls, this past August, taking the trailer to high school games and cheer competitions.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Wu said the city’s public school system will be closed for a second straight day on Tuesday, and libraries and community centers won’t open until noon.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.
    Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • One strike hitting an elementary school and killing over 100 people, according to Iranian state media.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Israeli strikes have hit targets across Iran, with one killing over 150 girls at an elementary school near a military base in the southern city of Minab, according to Iranian state media.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The species name goes to David Rhys Jones, a secondary school physics teacher in Wales who taught the lead author.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026
  • More than 200 million years after this creature last roamed what is now the United Kingdom, scientists have formally identified it as a new species — and named it after a secondary school physics teacher in Wales.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Griffin, who plans to attend a trade school to study welding or HVAC repair, said the hands-on experience piqued his interest.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Applicants must be permanent Illinois residents and be enrolled in a college, university or trade school for the 2026-27 academic year.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025

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