How to Use public school in a Sentence

public school

noun
  • Both of their sons attend public school.
  • 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
  • But many have said that a return to public school would be an important part of the healing process.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 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
  • Entering their second year in the public school, the 7-year-old twins arrived showing off some new gear.
    Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Rattray and her husband Amnon assumed care of the boy, who was a third grader in a nearby public school.
    Kerry McDonald, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Martinez-Granados would start the 5th grade that fall and continue to attend public school and go to high school at South Mountain.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The Texas mom pulled three of her kids – a kindergartner and twin first-graders – from public school in favor of home education this school year.
    Megan Myers, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Burglars and vandals have hit Los Angeles public schools 171 times since August.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • After graduating from Smithville public schools, Rather began her career and met Dan while working at a radio station in Houston.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024

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