How to Use public school in a Sentence

public school

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• Both of their sons attend public school.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• View the list below for a complete list of each public school district’s performance index.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• That meant taking my sister and me out of public school in May and returning to Brooklyn in October.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• His wife is a former public school teacher, and the family wouldn’t want this plan to hurt those institutions.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Around 33 states have passed laws allowing the takeover of public school districts that didn’t meet rating requirements.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Alas, antisemitism is alive and well in American public schools.
  — Garion Frankel, National Review, 22 Oct. 2023
• Amid the forecasts of imminent marvels and doom, some public schools tried to hit the pause button to give administrators time to catch up.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The left-leaning Texas Freedom Network, meanwhile, called the Friday vote a betrayal of the state’s millions of public school students.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Imagine a politician stepping up to a podium and promising that voters will not pay more than 7 percent of their income for their kid to go to public school.
  — Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Parents and taxpayers in general have lost trust in our public schools.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
• The problem was also rooted in a severe shortage of school bus drivers, which forced Louisville's public school district to reduce and merge its bus routes.
  — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The city has partnered with public schools and a nonprofit to offer free counseling services this week.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Last year, in 23 Baltimore public schools, not one student was proficient in math.
  — Ed Tarnowski, National Review, 9 Dec. 2023
• Some districts, such as Milwaukee public schools, are seeing rates as high as 58 percent.
  — Daniel Buck, National Review, 9 July 2023
• Since then, over 600 public schools shut down in Puerto Rico, and for the first time in the island's history, charter schools were introduced into the school system.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Still, that point can be overstated, as many public schools continue to give a solid education in tried and true ways.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• These efforts are also extending beyond the parish and public school system.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024