How to Use public school in a Sentence
public school
noun- Both of their sons attend public school.
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The program adds a new TK grade to K-12 public schools.
— Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024 -
The next step was to try to get that money back from the public school system.
— Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2022 -
The Little White Schoolhouse was built in 1853 as the first public school building in Ripon.
— Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024 -
Many of Fremont’s public schools scored at least a seven out of 10.
— Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024 -
Ana Macho grew up in the house their grandfather built in Caguas and went to public school in Caguas.
— Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023 -
In Atlanta, Pyne’s work on a project to look into the city’s public school system led to a school board turnover.
— Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022 -
After that trip, Joe landed in the District in the late 1990s and ended up teaching in a D.C. public school.
— Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023 -
The, there’s no extra money being billed to the parent for the service of the public school system.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022 -
Roughly 54% of all public school students are non-white.
— Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023 -
But the movement from public schools to private schools is notable.
— Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023 -
In addition, the paper doesn’t address the question of how such a program might work out in a public school.
— Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023 -
In 2013, Virginia was the first state to mandate that public schools adopt threat-assessment teams.
— Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 17 Apr. 2024 -
An increasing number of Austin public schools are barring the use of cell phones.
— Asher Price, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Colorado was the first to bar legacy admissions, at public schools, in 2021.
— Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Farm boys from Idaho had not been forced to sue for the right to attend public schools and universities.
— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 -
In 1959, Prince Edward County, in Virginia, closed its public schools for five years.
— Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 -
More than half were Black children, even though a little more than a third of Wicomico public school children are Black.
— Annie Ma, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023 -
Many adults went to public school and today have a child or grandchild attending one.
— Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024 -
The two also took tens of millions of public school dollars for their own personal use.
— Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023 -
But the nation’s 3 million public school teachers are far from a monolith.
— Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022 -
Last year, New Jersey, the first state to mandate climate change lessons, introduced them in its public schools.
— Hilary Howard, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Whitmer also wants to make Michigan the fourth state in the U.S. to offer free breakfast and lunch for every public school student.
— Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2023 -
Most schools should already be out for the summer, but if not, public schools will be closed for the federal holiday.
— Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2024 -
Some parents withdrew their kids from public school and placed them into private or home schools.
— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Close to 700 books have been removed from libraries in Orange County public schools.
— Justin M. Napolitano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2024 -
Walz is a proud alum of Chadron State College, a small public school in northwestern Nebraska.
— Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Another sign showed a graph illustrating the amount of state and local funding for public schools over the past two decades.
— Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024 -
Due to federal rules governing the extension, the department said public schools can no longer be the providers of these services this school year.
— Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The Fordham report said nearly one in 12 public schools in the U.S. experienced substantial enrollment decline in the period covered by the report.
— Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
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