charter school

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Recent Examples of charter school By contrast, in the past year alone, the OC Board of Ed closed one charter school and denied the applications of two others for failure to perform. Will Swaim, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026 Another family ProPublica and WPLN wrote about later won a $100,000 settlement against a Chattanooga public charter school; family members argued in a federal lawsuit that the school wrongly reported their 11-year-old autistic child to the police. Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2026 Stephanie Christian’s daughter, 18-year-old Abby Christian, has been in the TREP program at Highlands Ranch public charter school SkyView Academy since her sophomore year. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026 Florida statutes creating the charter school framework also require those schools to be nonreligious. Gray Rohrer, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for charter school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charter school
Noun
  • They are also required to hold two parent-teacher conferences annually, and students in those attendance zones receive priority points in the district’s magnet school admissions process.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • School breakfast While magnet school funding would decrease by $12 million, Lamont’s proposal for universal free school breakfast for all public school students would cost the same amount — $12 million.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Zamora supports giving middle and high school communities the option to have an officer on campus at least part-time.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Brown played tackle football in high school at Central Heights in Richmond, Kansas, about 15 miles from Ottawa, before becoming a record-setting linebacker for the program.
    PJ Green April 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Since then, the Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.
    CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Crooms, a Seminole County public school, has had boys volleyball for 16 years but scored its first district title with its 1A District 5 final victory over Cornerstone.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 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
  • Authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of a Long Island PTA mom accused of siphoning more than $50,000 from an elementary school over a three-year span while she was employed as a New York Police Department officer.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Al-Shayeb hopes its value will be widespread, giving centralized information to anyone from experienced ecologists to interested elementary school classrooms.
    Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The contest has three student categories for grades K-8, grades 9-2 and college/trade school students.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The share of teenagers considering vocational or trade school has more than doubled, from 12% in 2018 to 30% in 2024, according to JLL.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 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

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