Sunday school

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Noun
  • Nearly one in four Minnesotans holding a teaching license are not teaching in a public school or charter school, and a third of new teachers leave teaching within the first five years in the profession.
    Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Access to school choice programs varies widely by state, as some offer voucher programs and charter school funding while others have resisted.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The state Department of Education has recently honed in on fiscal challenges in Hartford also — conducting an audit of district spending on special education, magnet schools and other operations.
    Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, public and magnet schools such as Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech, and Bronx Science offer rigorous educational pathways for exceptional students.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • During a visit with primary school students in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, Melania Trump also promoted a USAID program that distributed more than 1.4 million textbooks to students.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Two 17-year-old boys, friends from primary school, stood arm in arm after bumping into each other at the vigil.
    Sarah Dean, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Leaving prison with $20 and a high school equivalency certificate, Fauteck straightened up.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
  • DeJean's old high school was covered this week with posters and signs celebrating their hometown hero.
    Matt Breen The Philadelphia Inquirer, arkansasonline.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to allow public schools to deny enrollment for undocumented students, according to a Nashville TV station.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Migrant children in Tennessee could soon face a major barrier to education as Republican lawmakers push a bill that would allow public schools to deny enrollment to undocumented students.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 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
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