kindergarten

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Recent Examples of kindergarten Calls by the staff to line up in order were ignored, with at least one man climbing over a fence to enter a nearby kindergarten, footage showed. Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025 All the way from kindergarten through the 12th grade. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025 In 2024, the CDC reported that coverage for all vaccines in children enrolled in kindergarten fell below 93%, with uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine standing at 92.7%. James Powel, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025 The average cost of private school attendance, from kindergarten through high school, is $312,026, according to the Education Data Initiative. Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergarten
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Noun
  • The company sold software to schools, which relied on manual processes and paper checks to make payments.
    Ryan Lawler, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This is about the same as the previous school year, but lower than the 94% seen in the 2020-22021 school year and the 95% seen in the 2019-2020 school year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • None of that hairy high school fake this, do what we're told.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Frost was very much a man of letters, a classicist and, alongside his future wife, Elinor, a co-valedictorian of his high school, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Zoom in: Federal funding made up 18% of Texas' public school budget for the 2021-2022 school year, compared with 23% in Mississippi — the highest in the nation — and just 7% in New York, the lowest, per USA Facts.
    Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
  • There’s also pressure from City Hall to help address funding woes within the city’s public school system amid tense contract negotiations with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closest political ally, the Chicago Teachers Union.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The executive order directs the Department of Education to prioritize discretionary federal grants for school choice and to issue guidance on allocating funding for elementary and secondary school scholarships.
    Corey A. DeAngelis, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
  • They’re already taught in schools, secondary schools and universities, around the world, and that always surprises me.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Soon the boys were enrolling at Pasadena Unified elementary schools — and all three would eventually attend Muir.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • There’s broad consensus among education researchers that the best way to teach students in early elementary school how to read is through explicit phonics instruction.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The opinion was also discussed that the study course at the Litchfield junior high school is too heavy for children of that age.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Putnam County Charter School System said in a statement on Facebook that Janet was a primary school teacher.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The Benedict School was closed after a successful term and the primary school will be closed for a month or so. Joseph Nachbar of St. Benedict is busy putting up ice.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Pasadena middle school had welcomed Villegas as a 12-year-old from Mexico.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Additionally, there are six to eight elementary schools being considered for potential replacements or new construction compared to a maximum of three middle schools and one high school.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025

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