trade school

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Recent Examples of trade school Whether through trade school, entrepreneurship, or acquiring digital skills, many are actively seeking alternatives to the traditional college route in pursuit of job security and personal fulfillment. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025 According to a report by Validated Insights, as of 2023 there were 1.5 million students enrolled in trade schools across the United States. Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2025 The Trump Administration is exploring tweaking this ratio, floating the idea of diverting money from Harvard to trade schools. Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025 The twins graduated from Collins Hill High School in Suwanee, Georgia, in May 2023 and were both pursuing their passions at trade schools. Javon Huynh, CNN Money, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for trade school
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Noun
  • The Courier Journal sent questions about SB 181 to every public school district in the state, totaling about 230.
    Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
  • As a mother of two boys in public schools and the product of public schools myself, this news was disturbing to say the least.
    Andrea Campbell, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What makes Conner's career switch all the more surprising: His high school isn't in the rolling hills of rural Wisconsin.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • For most, this list will change over time, and often doesn’t start taking shape until high school.
    Robert Cole, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The cost of elementary and secondary school lunches rose 3.3% in May 2025 relative to May 2024, according to a consumer price index report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The new tax law allows up to $10,000 in tax-free distributions this year from section 529 plans to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, including private schools and religious schools.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Washington coached high school, middle school sports Washington coached middle school boys basketball in the Park Hill School District, according to a school district sports website.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Holyoke man Scott McGinley, 55 — a middle school librarian in Longmeadow — has been charged with one count of distribution of child pornography.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The arrest occurred days after the start of the school year, and a week after another parent — who an immigration judge had ordered deportation in absentia — was taken into custody by federal immigration agents outside an elementary school in Chula Vista during morning drop-off.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Earlier this year, a bear attacked a man in his 70s near an elementary school in Nasushiobara City, Japan’s public media organization NHK reported.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Indiana code requires the court to forfeit the bond of a defendant who fails to appear in court and transfer the bond amount to the state common school fund, according to the audit.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2024

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