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
  • Chessa has a 15-year-old, a 3-year-old and a 2-year-old in public school.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • So far, few public schools seem to be rushing to change their practices.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Karmen is the parent of two graduates of the New York City public schools.
    — Kemala Karmen, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • That opens one of the top public school coaching positions in the Southland. . .
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Hawaii’s statewide public school teachers union has backed plans to change McKinley High's name.
    — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But even in the local public school, native kids were my schoolmates.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The city required all public school teachers -- in the largest school system in the country -- to receive at least one dose of the vaccine.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 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
  • Many of those kids only have access to their local public schools.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Numerous states have, for decades, offered free bus rides to and from school to all public school students.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • 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
  • This will surely chill speech throughout the public school system.
    — David Faris, The Week, 29 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • In an unprecedented move, our public schools handed out hundreds of thousands of devices to help more than 1 million students continue to safely learn online with their teachers and classmates.
    — Dr. Mitchell Katz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025

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