public school

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Recent Examples of public school Tuition for both private and public schools has been steadily climbing for decades, up 81% from 2001 after adjusting for inflation, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025 That’s not unusual: In virtually every city and county in Florida, public safety is a leading recipient of property taxes (along with public schools). Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2025 Enrollment at two-year vocational public schools have increased by about 20% since 2020, a net increase of over 850,000 students, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 July 2025 Lake Mary is the only Orlando area public school to win a FHSAA sanctioned lacrosse championship, which date to 2008 for boys and girls. Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for public school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for public school
Noun
  • LeBron James, who was a few days younger when the Cleveland Cavaliers selected him in 2003 out of high school.
    Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Conor Schroeder, 18, is a senior in his fifth year of high school who is striving to graduate.
    Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Indiana University-Bloomington should not be turned into a trade school with Division One football and basketball.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • Meanwhile, their friends who didn’t go to college were enrolling in trade school or going directly to work in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, construction …basically everything else.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 July 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 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
  • Children in the Waukegan Park District’s Before and After School program (BASE) get an opportunity to form friendships with youngsters who are not in the same elementary school, but may become classmates in middle school and certainly in high school.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Finally, one of your suggestions is connect with other parents with similar mindsets on phones/social media before your kids get to middle school.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • This is Heartlands Academy, a secondary school in Nechells, Birmingham, close to Spaghetti Junction and precisely two miles from Villa Park.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • The trend began slowly, in the nineteen-eighties, when secondary schools with big-time basketball programs—notably, Oak Hill Academy, in rural Virginia, the alma mater of Rod Strickland, Anthony, and Durant—began recruiting the country’s best players.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 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

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