How to Use charter school in a Sentence

charter school

noun
  • Of those who transferred out, about 85% went to charter schools, state records show.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This could be in a charter school, private school, or home-school co-op.
    Hanna Skandera, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Search for a charter school by name, or for all schools in a county, by county name.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Under district plans, a charter school or preschool might move into the other schools on the list.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • But Edwards researched that, and his charter school is a for-profit school.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That number jumps to around 50% in the Southern Section, which includes a wider range of private and charter schools.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Across charter schools, 726 truant teens were referred to court.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • One local charter school group is going against the current grain.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s a look at when school districts, charter schools and statewide magnet schools are taking their spring break.
    Tcrain, al, 12 Mar. 2023
  • More than 1,500 students are taking at least one class at the charter school — with more than two-thirds of them studying online full-time.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Those associated with the center are hoping to add a charter school to the mix.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • About one in five district students attends a charter school.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • As charter schools, they are required to be authorized by a public board.
    Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Since then, Stax has been rebuilt and reborn in the form of a museum, a music academy and a charter school.
    Adrian Sainz, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The now-7-year-old was a prekindergartner at a District charter school when the pandemic began.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The district does not share the dollars with independent charter schools.
    The Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2023
  • Nine of 12 charter schools also posted higher scores than last year.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • No new charter school licenses have been issued in the city for three years, after the cap set by the State Legislature was hit in 2019.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Another method is to fund charter schools and magnet schools.
    Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 21 July 2023
  • Luiza Monti, a senior, had come to college as a well-rounded graduate of a charter school in Phoenix.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Hers is one of the two elementary-middle charter schools built in as many years at Colony Ridge and now serving more than 2,300 children.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • And in January, two students were fatally shot at a charter school in Des Moines, Iowa.
    Natalie Obregon, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • School districts and charter schools would be banned from contracting with book sellers who refuse to comply.
    Wire Services, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
  • While charter schools still took the state’s top two places, this year’s list presents a balance between charter and traditional schools.
    Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Roughly one-third of students in Newark attend public charter schools.
    Tracey Tully, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the teachers union and its allies in the city are mounting an effort to restrict charter schools from using empty space in district schools.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Grant had planned to go to graduate school and build a career in science, but in need of a job, decided to teach science at a charter school in Boston.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The two met when Henson began attending her small charter school in 11th grade, after years of home-schooling.
    Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Breakthrough Public Schools is a network of five, free, K-8 public charter schools in Cleveland.
    Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • The couple both have good jobs, Zachary as a project manager with a charter school company and she as a recreational leader with the city of San Marcos.
    Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022

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