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Recent Examples of public school
All states had mandatory vaccine requirements for public school entry by 1980, and data over the past several decades continues to demonstrate the importance of these laws for public health.
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Stacie Kershner, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
Charter schools are created as public school options within the public school setting that are managed by independent boards.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Around 80% of public school elementary and secondary teachers identify as non-Hispanic white, according to a Pew Research Center report from last year.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Dale Carpenter, a constitutional law professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, said the government has broad authority to police the speech of public school teachers — but only in certain circumstances.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
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Stacie Kershner, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
Charter schools are created as public school options within the public school setting that are managed by independent boards.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Around 80% of public school elementary and secondary teachers identify as non-Hispanic white, according to a Pew Research Center report from last year.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Dale Carpenter, a constitutional law professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, said the government has broad authority to police the speech of public school teachers — but only in certain circumstances.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
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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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The famed director, who played the instrument in his high school band, also resurfaced the talent for the score of Jaws decades later.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Paul Martinez has seen a lot of baseball, but the long-time high school coach couldn’t wait for Friday night’s Athletics game to start.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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At the moment, Geisel said, the trade school is fully staffed, but that doesn’t account for the long waitlists its programs have.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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It was always expected that my siblings and I would either go to college or trade school.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
15 Sep. 2025
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The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Sep. 2025
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Police said the incident began with a physical altercation at a north-area junior high school, which officials did not name.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.—
Hannah Pinski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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Mac, as his middle school music teacher was affectionately known, would wrangle tickets to the opera, and the symphony, and the art museum, and the Broadway musical, for young Efrain Solis and his classmates.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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Brody's real-life wife joins the show as Abby, who's been described as Joanne's middle school nemesis.—
Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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According to Florida law, that includes police stations, prisons, polling places, elementary or secondary school buildings and locations where open carry is prohibited by federal law.—
Max Rego,
The Hill,
16 Sep. 2025
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Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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