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Recent Examples of public school
Despite being a required vaccine in all states to attend public school, rates have been steadily decreasing over the last decade, CDC data shows.
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Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.
—Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Turns out, report cards with smiley faces don’t illuminate Lucy’s knowledge of mathematics or help Juan decide what public school is best for his son.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
The number of students in non-public school settings alone typically grows by 200 to 300 students per month, while federal IDEA funding remains stagnant.
—Megan De Mar, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.
—Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Turns out, report cards with smiley faces don’t illuminate Lucy’s knowledge of mathematics or help Juan decide what public school is best for his son.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
The number of students in non-public school settings alone typically grows by 200 to 300 students per month, while federal IDEA funding remains stagnant.
—Megan De Mar, CBS News, 10 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
Noun
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Mill Creek football coach Josh Lovelady says Caleb Downs’ rise from athletic high school freshman to first-round NFL draft pick was like a puzzle.—
Jack Leo,
AJC.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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And his favorite high school team, the Spartans, swept a two-game series from Sun Valley Poly with their own great pitching to move three games up in the Valley Mission League race with four to play.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Reyes said her son planned to enroll in trade school to become a mechanic.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2026
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By having a trade school on the property, students will have the opportunity to work on productions while also getting an education.—
Samuel O’Neal
Updated April 10,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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That happened one day during a middle school game.—
Tony Baranek,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Newport Mesa Unified School District has voted to ban e-bikes at all elementary and middle school campuses beginning in the 2027-28 school year.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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People stand at the courtyard of a secondary school where an assailant opened fire, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 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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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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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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