How to Use work-study program in a Sentence

work-study program

noun
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  • There are about 100 girls in the work-study program now, the sisters said.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 16 July 2021
  • Both came to the United States through a work-study program of the State Department.
    — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The student can earn $3,000 of that through a work-study program or campus job.
    — Lee Lawrence, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Takeda had been the school’s biggest partner, providing nine of the 100 jobs in the school’s work-study program, Kendall said.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
  • The students are involved in a corporate work-study program.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As a teen, Worms enrolled in the intensive, 10-year work-study program at les Compagnons du Devoir.
    — NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The academy hopes to raise $3 million to sustain the work-study program and building renovations for years to come.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 16 July 2021
  • The two-year budget deal that Trump signed into law last week will spare the work-study program, along with a few others, from such drastic reductions in funding.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Find work Have your student look for work-study programs or other part-time work on campus to cut down on college expenses.
    — Anthony Oneal, Woman's Day, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The spending plan also reversed cuts to programs that helped low-income college students, such as the federal work-study program that Ms. DeVos had sought to halve.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Benavides hopes a work-study program -- and maybe eventual scholarships and loans, along with financial help from her mother -- will be enough to make ends meet.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2020
  • With the extra money Congress allocated last week, the White House proposed restoring $300 million to the work-study program in an addendum.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But at Yale University, the school makes clear that students need work authorization to offset their tuition through work-study programs.
    — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The Trump administration wants to slash nearly $790 million from the federal work-study programs that help students work their way through college.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The federal work-study program, which Trump’s administration proposed to cut in half, also got a funding boost.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Harvey met his wife the first week of college, both studying language and education, which took them to Switzerland for an initial work-study program before their children were born.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • DeVos’s budget proposal last year sought to cut 13.5 percent of the agency’s funding, and aimed to cut college work-study programs in half and end public-service loan forgiveness.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • One of the few students from her high school to go to college, Reichert was attracted to Antioch because of its cooperative work-study program.
    — J. Hoberman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • One of the few students from her high school to go to college, Ms. Reichert was attracted to Antioch because of its cooperative work-study program.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Others have gone overseas for work-study programs or taken corporate internships far from home.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Martin was involved in a work-study program at Portland State University and was studying art there, and doing maintenance work.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2020
  • UW-Madison also plans to pay students in the federal work-study program differently.
    — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2020
  • In Washington, the state government operates a work-study program that pays a portion of college students’ wages for part-time jobs, often in fields related to their majors.
    — Tim Keller and, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
  • The state’s work-study program was previously limited to college students.
    — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Cristo Rey students are required to spend one day a week in a work-study program, and many of Merritt’s players take on additional honors courses despite the rigors of their athletic pursuits.
    — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Every year, the Education Department awards about $120 billion in student aid in grants, federal student loans, and work-study programs.
    — Maria Danilova, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The carrier has faced some early criticism from labor unions over its hiring practices, including its plan to hire flight attendants through a work-study program with a college near Salt Lake City.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 26 June 2021
  • Adriane Castillo, managing operator of the work-study program, told me, laughing.
    — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 7 May 2018
  • Notre Dame's work-study program, which offers tuition reimbursement for custodial work, was first established in 1965.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 16 July 2021
  • Federal work-study programs provide part-time jobs for part-time or full-time undergraduate and graduate students with financial need to earn money to help pay education expenses.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023

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