How to Use public school in a Sentence

public school

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• Both of their sons attend public school.
• Masks are back in at least one Michigan public school district, and they're recommended in several others.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2023
• Forcing religious families to pay taxes for secular public schools and for education consistent with their beliefs cannot stand.
  — Neal McCluskey, National Review, 12 Sep. 2024
• But the moves have raised broader questions about whether these should be standard procedures across the city’s public school sites — and whether the episode, and the district’s communications about it, have caused undue anxiety.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• Chicago public school students will be required to attend classes Thursday, but all after-school activities are canceled, according to the district.
  — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The program adds a new TK grade to K-12 public schools.
  — Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 24 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Close to 700 books have been removed from libraries in Orange County public schools.
  — Justin M. Napolitano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 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
• Should Massachusetts give public school teachers the right to strike?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• So, what's happened to the $745 million the federal government awarded to public schools in southwest Ohio over the last three years?
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
• Regardless of who takes home the championship, public school students in the City of Brotherly Love will get two hours of extra rest the day after the big game.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2023
• Lessons learned and lessons passed on by two public school history teachers with night jobs as football coaches.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• Fixing America’s public schools might be one of the toughest challenges out there.
  — Michael J. Petrilli, National Review, 16 Aug. 2024
• As a public school teacher for three decades, Pringle saw how new waves of technology unsettled but then aided teaching.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024