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Recent Examples of public school
The daughter of Gwinnett County public school teachers, Gegen began working in politics in 2018 for Chalis Montgomery’s unsuccessful congressional campaign.
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Adam Beam, AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2026
Many public school students were thrilled by Monday’s full snow day, the first with no remote learning since before the COVID pandemic.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
New York City and Boston canceled public school classes for Monday, while Philadelphia will switch to online learning.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
Career spans public school to politics to prayer Talarico was born in 1989 in Round Rock, Texas, to a single mother, according to his campaign website.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
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Adam Beam, AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2026
Many public school students were thrilled by Monday’s full snow day, the first with no remote learning since before the COVID pandemic.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
New York City and Boston canceled public school classes for Monday, while Philadelphia will switch to online learning.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
Career spans public school to politics to prayer Talarico was born in 1989 in Round Rock, Texas, to a single mother, according to his campaign website.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 17 Feb. 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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Evidently, Ruth is meant to represent all that is good and pure for eschewing the luxe life for the smaller ambition of being a high school English teacher.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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Godfrey began Cactus Bowls, which sells açai bowls, this past August, taking the trailer to high school games and cheer competitions.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Griffin, who plans to attend a trade school to study welding or HVAC repair, said the hands-on experience piqued his interest.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Feb. 2026
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Applicants must be permanent Illinois residents and be enrolled in a college, university or trade school for the 2026-27 academic year.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
14 Dec. 2025
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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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Burrows — who also coaches his daughter’s middle school team, baseball at North Harford and formerly led the Hawks’ boys basketball team — received a call from Patterson Mill boys basketball coach and athletic director Jeroud Clark last year asking to coach those familiar faces.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Feb. 2026
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Speaking prior to the ceremony, Johnson said it will be decided by a committee at a later date in a process similar to the one used in selecting the name Legacy for the new middle school being built on Elgin’s east side.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Oleh Kiper, the head of Ukraine’s Odesa region on the Black Sea, said drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure facilities in the region, including a secondary school and an energy company’s warehouses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The secondary school has just 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
19 Nov. 2025
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The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026
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This is the podcast that would make my senior high school English teacher, Mr. Bergeron, very happy.—
Richard Wagoner,
Daily News,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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