high school

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Recent Examples of high school His evolution from a high school star to a college role player highlights his adaptability and team-first mentality, qualities that elevate his appeal as a Nets prospect. C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025 More than 4,000 high school students applied for the 1,200 seasonal positions, including teens from out of state eager to be part of the debut season. Abbey Briscoe, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2025 Organizers are expected to release additional details about the sports included, qualifying criteria for high school athletes, and broadcasting partners in the coming months. Tim Ryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025 Capitol Meridian, however, doesn’t invest in products, such as handguns, that could wind up in a high school. Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
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Noun
  • Lockhart: Connecticut’s 2025 legislative session brought major wins for public schools: historic investments in special education via a $30 million Special Education Expansion and Development grant and $40 million Excess Cost Grant annually.
    Question & Answer, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • Supporters said the proposal would expand education options for families across the country, offering alternatives to students in areas with lower-performing public schools.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The Cups 4 Cancer fundraiser will be dedicated to Austin’s former junior high school teammate Dylan Krestan, who has battled Hodgkin lymphoma for the last several months.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • For example, enrollment in Catholic secondary schools in the United States was at just over one million students around the late 1960s and early 1970s, according to NCES data.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • The selective integration of Austin secondary schools was expanded.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Hobart Superintendent Peggy Buffington said cursive is still taught in its elementary schools and it’s also taught in neighboring River Forest schools, said Superintendent Kevin Trezak. Lake Station Community Schools, doesn’t teach it, said Superintendent Tom Cripliver.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • The screening is currently targeted at students in the first and fourth grades of elementary school, and the first levels of middle and high school.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Ryan Gosling is a middle school teacher who is tasked with a mission somehow more impossible than getting his students to care, well, about anything, in the first trailer for Project Hail Mary.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • That’s right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.
    Richard Stengel, TIME, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Indiana code requires the court to forfeit the bond of a defendant who fails to appear in court and transfer the bond amount to the state common school fund, according to the audit.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • According to the World Economic Forum, 65% of today’s primary school kids will work in jobs that don’t yet exist.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The number of children entering primary school in 2023 reached the highest level in over two decades, according to Wind Information, before dropping in 2024, the year her son enrolled.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 June 2025

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