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Recent Examples of primary school
What’s more, the breadth of different projects financed by NMTC results in job creation across a variety of fields—bringing opportunities to healthcare providers, daycare and primary school teachers, factory workers and more.
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Vince Toye, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Students ages 8 to 14 from San Ildefonso, a primary school that dates back more than 500 years, revealed the winners by singing the numbers and the corresponding prize amounts, which are drawn from wooden balls.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
After Karen agreed, Brenda enrolled Nicole in a local primary school.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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Vince Toye, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Students ages 8 to 14 from San Ildefonso, a primary school that dates back more than 500 years, revealed the winners by singing the numbers and the corresponding prize amounts, which are drawn from wooden balls.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
After Karen agreed, Brenda enrolled Nicole in a local primary school.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primary school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- common school
- senior high school
- middle school
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The queen consort officially opened the Mulberry Academy London Dock, a secondary school that is part of the Mulberry Schools Trust family of schools.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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On Monday, Fort Worth Independent School District confirmed to USA TODAY that it had been notified about a substitute teacher, implying the immigration law enforcement agency should visit one of its secondary schools.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The couple met in elementary school and began dating in high school.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Wednesday’s school shooting comes nearly two years after a shooter opened fire at a separate Nashville private elementary school and killed six people, including three children.—
Kristin M. Hall,
TIME,
23 Jan. 2025
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This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2025
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Teams will use Choctaw Stadium, and high school facilities in Mansfield and Southlake.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2025
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School Board members must remember that their constituents are not only public school students and their parents, but Broward taxpayers as well.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
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State officials reportedly pegged the total of the hurricane’s damage for western North Carolina public schools to be about $85 million.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Castaic Union School District closed all schools, while the William S. Hart Union High School District shut down multiple campuses, including Castaic, Valencia, and Rio Norte junior high schools, impacting 21,000 students in the Santa Clarita Valley.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Here's what's changing for next school year: West Corridor Ethel M. Taylor Academy will become a junior high school serving students in seventh and eighth grades.—
Madeline Mitchell,
The Enquirer,
11 Dec. 2024
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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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Of that, $45 million would go to the state’s common school fund and another $45 million would be earmarked for prizes.—
Marianne Mather,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2024
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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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No one in the group is a stranger—a handful of them are the surfer and skater boys that so many of us had crushes on in middle school.—
Emma Marie Jenkinson,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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This year’s finalists include two U.S. History high school teachers, a teacher of appliance and refrigeration repair at a technical school and a middle school orchestra teacher.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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