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Recent Examples of trade school
The application can unlock thousands of dollars in financial aid, grants and other support for students seeking to attend colleges and trade schools.
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Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
Scholarships are available exclusively to Fox Valley high school seniors, college undergrads, trade school and graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year, according to a press release about the program.
—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
As artificial intelligence rakes through the tech industry and beyond, some students also see some of the hands-on jobs taught in trade schools as less vulnerable to the machine-learning takeover.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
About 62% of high school (or equivalent) graduates go on to postsecondary study, which can refer to trade school or a four-year university, the Education Data Initiative, a collective of education data researchers, reports.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
Scholarships are available exclusively to Fox Valley high school seniors, college undergrads, trade school and graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year, according to a press release about the program.
—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
As artificial intelligence rakes through the tech industry and beyond, some students also see some of the hands-on jobs taught in trade schools as less vulnerable to the machine-learning takeover.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
About 62% of high school (or equivalent) graduates go on to postsecondary study, which can refer to trade school or a four-year university, the Education Data Initiative, a collective of education data researchers, reports.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trade school
- public school
- high school
- grammar school
- junior high school
- secondary school
- middle school
- elementary school
- common school
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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
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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
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None of that hairy high school fake this, do what we're told.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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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
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Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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Instead, the hardline Islamist group has done an about-face and banned women from going to university, closed secondary schools and beauty salons, and stopped women from working at NGOs, including at the United Nations.—
Salma Abdelaziz,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Historic buildings, elementary and secondary schools, manufacturing buildings, agricultural buildings and federal buildings can apply to be exempted.—
Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Jan. 2025
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The system's junior high ranked first statewide among middle schools in overall ATLAS growth with a rate of 88.11%.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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The monthly goal is to give away about a thousand books, usually to elementary schools, middle schools and different children’s organizations, or to have students come into the bookstore and clear the shelves themselves.—
Shanzeh Ahmad,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
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The club’s goal is to honor students at Barnard, Kate Sessions and Pacific Beach elementary schools and Crown Point Junior Music Academy.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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“Trade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trade%20school. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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