summer school
noun
: a school or school session conducted in summer enabling students to accelerate progress toward a diploma or degree, to make up credits lost through absence or failure, or to round out professional education
Examples of summer school in a Sentence
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My mom worked full time as a teacher, and during the summer for summer school.
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Jill Robi, Parents, 18 May 2024
The district also created a new Saturday learning program, expanded its summer school offerings, and hired new staffers called family engagement specialists to work with chronically absent students and their parents to get kids back in school consistently.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
Things like having summer school and additional tutoring and programs like that can help.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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The African American Policy Forum will host a Critical Race Theory summer school in New York to provide a week of training on issues, including advocacy, education and political engagement.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Some have had to cut positions and scrap programs such as summer school.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
Principal Xavier Kimber explained that the school would be losing several important learning interventions, including summer school and key staff members.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
Professor Kane, one of the researchers, also advised schools to notify the parents of all children who are behind, in time to sign up for summer school.
—Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
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Cartwright Elementary School District, which has 20 schools, canceled its summer school programming, district spokesperson Victor Hugo Rodriguez said.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
Jill Robi, Parents, 18 May 2024
The district also created a new Saturday learning program, expanded its summer school offerings, and hired new staffers called family engagement specialists to work with chronically absent students and their parents to get kids back in school consistently.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
Things like having summer school and additional tutoring and programs like that can help.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Reading further:Black history 'Underground Railroad' forms across US after increase of book bans
The African American Policy Forum will host a Critical Race Theory summer school in New York to provide a week of training on issues, including advocacy, education and political engagement.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Some have had to cut positions and scrap programs such as summer school.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
Principal Xavier Kimber explained that the school would be losing several important learning interventions, including summer school and key staff members.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
Professor Kane, one of the researchers, also advised schools to notify the parents of all children who are behind, in time to sign up for summer school.
—Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Here's how much snow has fallen in 2024 so far
Cartwright Elementary School District, which has 20 schools, canceled its summer school programming, district spokesperson Victor Hugo Rodriguez said.
—Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Summer school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summer%20school. Accessed 22 May. 2024.
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