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Recent Examples of public school
Fairforest Elementary, a public school, had immunization rates at 85% among more than 760 students.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Cutting federal funding In a move that affects public school students across the country, the department has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a variety of programs, including for mental health professionals and for training and supporting new teachers.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
Every spring, California public school students in third through eighth grade, as well as 11th-graders, take comprehensive, end-of-year standardized tests in English language arts and math as part of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
The world of Bronx Science—a selective public school of some three thousand students, many of them the children of working-class immigrants—differed dramatically from the affluent intellectual milieu of Mamdani’s childhood.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Cutting federal funding In a move that affects public school students across the country, the department has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a variety of programs, including for mental health professionals and for training and supporting new teachers.
—Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
Every spring, California public school students in third through eighth grade, as well as 11th-graders, take comprehensive, end-of-year standardized tests in English language arts and math as part of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
The world of Bronx Science—a selective public school of some three thousand students, many of them the children of working-class immigrants—differed dramatically from the affluent intellectual milieu of Mamdani’s childhood.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 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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Jim Varsallone Miami Herald 305-376-3621 Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.—
Miami Herald Staff Reports,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Of course, that type of defense doesn’t help to explain why high school athletes can’t sign NIL deals while high school influencers, esports players, actors and musicians can.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Technical colleges and trade school options have become increasingly popular, especially since the pandemic.—
RACHEL SPECTOR,
Miami Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, a study earlier this summer from the American Staffing Association found one in three Americans would advise high school graduates to go to trade school over college—a push which was highest among baby boomer respondents.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 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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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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In the series, Meester will portray Abby, the middle school nemesis of Bell's character Joanne.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Nearly three-quarters of the 119 million girls out of school worldwide are of secondary school-age, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Girls were notably banned from secondary school the next month, meaning that online education became one of the last avenues of hope.—
Zahra Nader,
Time,
3 Oct. 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 21 Oct. 2025.
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