high school

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Recent Examples of high school Sponsored by Palomar College for adults and high school students. Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 As reported by sister site Deadline, Staite will recur during Season 4 as Jules Gardner, an FBI agent who went to high school with Asta, Liv , D’Arcy and Ben. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 20 Mar. 2025 As the new high school complex was being built in 2021, the band trailer was relocated to an area near the track toward the back of the construction site. Charlottefive Staff, Charlotte Observer, 19 Mar. 2025 Day two of the Texas high school boys basketball UIL state championships are here. Charles Baggarly and, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
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Noun
  • Across the United States, different public schools have banned different books, with many of these bans taking aim at literature that affirms Black identity and culture.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The issue has historically been a tension point for Texas Republicans, facing opposition from some within the party, particularly among rural House members who have feared for their local public schools.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The series at the time focused on Hayley Mills, who played the title character, and her students at an Indianapolis junior high school.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
  • While days were spent instructing junior high school students in the Washington area, Flack's nights coalesced around her budding music career.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.
    Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Jam formed in 1972 while all three band members were in secondary school, and their first album titled In the City released in 1977.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Yet, there is still clear consensus among sleep and health organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, that secondary schools should delay start times to optimize teens’ sleep, mood, health, safety, and learning opportunities.
    Lynne Peeples, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For years, teachers and parents at a Liberty elementary school have worried that something in and around their campus may be making people sick, leading to a high number of cancer diagnoses.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The medical and psychiatric records in question supported the argument by relatives of Sandy Hook victims that they had been traumatized by Jones’ assertions that the elementary school massacre was a hoax and by years of harassment by members of his audience.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of these players are lifers, kids who started at Kent Denver in middle school, with a few, like Fay, who had Schayes as their sixth-grade English teacher.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
  • But my daughters came home from middle school without any mention of it.
    Aya Shechter, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.
    Richard Stengel, TIME, 15 Feb. 2025
  • With one sentence, vouchers would become constitutional in Kentucky: The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Over recent years 70,000 primary school teachers across England and Wales have also been given access to free resources to protect our planet, through Premier League Primary Stars, a program to inspire young people aged 5 to 11 years old.
    Claire Poole, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Without informing the residents, the Liberian Ministry of Health converted a primary school into a holding center for Ebola patients in West Point, a working poor community in Monrovia.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025

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