charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school Student learning funds investigated Epic Youth Services, a private company contracted to manage the charter school system for a decade, made school co-founders Ben Harris and David Chaney very wealthy. Andrea Eger, Oklahoma Watch, 14 Apr. 2026 Human remains were found near a Baltimore City charter school Monday evening, according to police. Adam Thompson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026 By contrast, in the past year alone, the OC Board of Ed closed one charter school and denied the applications of two others for failure to perform. Will Swaim, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026 Another family ProPublica and WPLN wrote about later won a $100,000 settlement against a Chattanooga public charter school; family members argued in a federal lawsuit that the school wrongly reported their 11-year-old autistic child to the police. Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter school
Noun
  • To the left, drivers pay no mind to a flashing beacon announcing the school zone, said Gerardo Sandoval, a parent of a student at the south Charlotte magnet school.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Sue Hendrickson — who did not have a high school diploma — received her first university credentials in the form of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois Chicago.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The story follows a recent high school graduate who spends the summer with her absent mother and comes to know her in a different light, adult-to-adult.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Since then, 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.
    CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Crooms, a Seminole County public school, has had boys volleyball for 16 years but scored its first district title with its 1A District 5 final victory over Cornerstone.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 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
  • Smaller children from a nearby elementary school were availing themselves of climbers, slides, and beams.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Calling for the accountability of the war crimes that have been committed through our military action against Venezuela and Iran, specifically regarding double taps and the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school.
    Kevin Fixler May 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • After completing secondary school, Keiko moved to the United States to attend Stony Brook University.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026
  • The surviving children of Tumbler Ridge, meanwhile, attend classes in trailers, as their rural mining town’s empty secondary school awaits demolition.
    Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The contest has three student categories for grades K-8, grades 9-2 and college/trade school students.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.
    Scott W. Stern, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.
    Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026

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