trade school

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Recent Examples of trade school 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 April 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026 Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school. R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026 The young teen was thinking about going to a trade school to learn about becoming a mechanic. Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for trade school
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Noun
  • In December 2019, school district officials sent documentation of Agan’s firing, along with details of their investigation, to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California’s educator licensing agency, as state law requires for public school teachers who resign or are fired for misconduct.
    Holly McDede, ProPublica, 12 May 2026
  • This school year alone, the TEA reports that Texas saw 75,000 fewer public school students.
    Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Sue Hendrickson — who did not have a high school diploma — received her first university credentials in the form of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois Chicago.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The story follows a recent high school graduate who spends the summer with her absent mother and comes to know her in a different light, adult-to-adult.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Not only is Irish the Republic’s first official language, and compulsory from primary through to secondary school, it is required for entry into the civil service, and it is supported by its own radio station (Raidió na Gaeltachta) and TV station (TG4), and a range of promotional bodies.
    Big Think, Big Think, 4 May 2026
  • After completing secondary school, Keiko moved to the United States to attend Stony Brook University.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls learning that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • In 2025, lawmakers passed similar restrictions for Georgia elementary and middle school students.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • When those experiences are limited, children enter elementary school already behind.
    Tina Dello Russo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2026
  • She’s served in the legislature since 2025, and her children attend a CMS elementary school.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Trade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trade%20school. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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