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Recent Examples of public school
Florida has relied on Hillsdale previously, using it as a model in 2023 for the conservative transformation of New College of Florida in Sarasota and asking Hillsdale professors in 2020 to consult on public school standards and curriculum.
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Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
Compared to 2016 salaries, researchers estimate public school support staff have seen a drop in pay of $2,344.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
The Boston City Council defeated a resolution last month, by a 9-3 vote, that sponsors Ed Flynn and Julia Mejia said sought to uphold state law restricting alcohol at public school facilities.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Bachak, a 43-year-old public school teacher, saw the activity as a sign this former coal town had recharged from its polluting past.
—Tim Craig, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
Compared to 2016 salaries, researchers estimate public school support staff have seen a drop in pay of $2,344.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
The Boston City Council defeated a resolution last month, by a 9-3 vote, that sponsors Ed Flynn and Julia Mejia said sought to uphold state law restricting alcohol at public school facilities.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Bachak, a 43-year-old public school teacher, saw the activity as a sign this former coal town had recharged from its polluting past.
—Tim Craig, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public school
- high school
- trade school
- junior high school
- common school
- middle school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- senior high school
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls learning that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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In 2025, lawmakers passed similar restrictions for Georgia elementary and middle school students.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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Not only is Irish the Republic’s first official language, and compulsory from primary through to secondary school, it is required for entry into the civil service, and it is supported by its own radio station (Raidió na Gaeltachta) and TV station (TG4), and a range of promotional bodies.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 May 2026
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After completing secondary school, Keiko moved to the United States to attend Stony Brook University.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 May 2026
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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
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After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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