How to Use academic year in a Sentence

academic year

noun
  • The team did log the flyers as a hate and bias incident, which will appear in a public report at the end of the academic year.
    Cristian Martinez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The long search forced schools to close at the start of the academic year, led to warnings for homeowners to lock their doors, and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The long search led to school closures right at the start of the academic year, warnings for homeowners to lock their doors and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Students make up about a fifth of the city’s population during the academic year.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Hess and about 50 other Hillsboro teachers completed the first half of the training over the summer and will complete the second half by the end of the academic year.
    oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The middle school is one of six debuting this academic year in Prince George’s County.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Parker Elementary, with a student body of roughly 300 children, was one of two schools that closed at the end of the last academic year.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2022
  • California used students’ home addresses that were on file at their schools at the start of the academic year in 2020 to mail the cards, Mascia said.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • East High School to add armed officers School would be canceled through the end of the week, and two armed officers would be stationed at the school through the end of the academic year, Marrero said.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Two dozen students worked on the Solar Futures House over a period of two academic years, rotating in and out of the project as part of their coursework.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • About 50 students will have to return to their neighborhood schools or find other schools for next academic year.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of students will be impacted in the upcoming academic year.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • A number of universities have put up their prices for the next academic year, following a trend of increments being added since the 1960s.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • From the outside, Lyceum No. 6 appears unscathed by more than six months of Russian occupation, and ready to welcome students for the new academic year.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There were also signs of the virus re-emerging in Shanghai and Beijing, with authorities in the capital warning of the risks from students returning to the city for the start of the new academic year.
    Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Those concerns were valid, as a quarter of students did not show up for or were minimally present during distance learning at the end of that academic year.
    Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022
  • That compares with in-state tuition of $7,188 per academic year at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
    Allison Salerno, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • With that groundwork, the center has grown to offer a multitude of services and resources, and this academic year, the system invested $2 million of its budget to the center.
    Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The rate represents students who left and didn't enroll in another school setting during that academic year.
    The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the last five academic years, the district has lost around 3,000 students, according to previous Tribune reporting.
    Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • Students this academic year were able to take an unlimited number of classes.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
  • After the school’s 13th president, Meredith Woo, stepped down at the end of the last academic year, Hutson took on the role of interim president while a national search for a leader was underway.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This is especially true when demand is expected to be high, such as in the run-up to major holidays like Christmas and Halloween or the start of the academic year following a summer break.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • The barge plan has not materialized, and enrollment remained flat this academic year.
    Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • At the beginning of the academic year, many schools, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast, had to close or dismiss students early because of sweltering heat.
    Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Access College, a two-year associate degree program started as pilot with three students last academic year, now has 26 enrollees.
    Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Recognizing the value of the learning and work that youth do in the program, the collage has enabled youth to participate in the academic year program for community college credit.
    Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2022
  • More than 1,800 individuals were served through August and September of this academic year.
    Ryan Anderson, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The measure would have defined chronic absenteeism as a student who misses 10% or more of instructional time within an academic year.
    Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • The company’s rapid expansion, with revenue reaching $8 million last academic year, brought growing pains.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2024

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