How to Use private school in a Sentence
private school
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The Thomases sent the child to a series of private schools.
—Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2023
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And yours for just the cost of one year of private school!
—Curbed, 14 July 2023
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But the private school powerhouse has played one of the toughest schedules in the state.
—Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
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So, with the help of a scholarship, Gray transferred Amani to a private school.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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The top teams in Class 4A received five points, and private schools received 10 points.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
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The child was not enrolled in public or private school more than 25 hours a week.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Part of the problem is that private schools lure away the best talent from public schools.
—Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
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And in private schools, there'd been black kids allowed in the schools for a really long time.
—Outside Online, 26 June 2024
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As a private school, the school obtained funding through donors and tuition.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
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The scholarships cover the cost of private school tuition.
—cleveland, 6 Feb. 2023
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Smith said Caruso has helped send her daughter to private school.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
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The exact increase, because BYU is a private school, is not known.
—Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
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More parents now homeschool and send kids to charters and private schools.
—John Stossel, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
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There’s also a big divide among private schools, the report said.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 7 July 2024
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Their kids go to a private school – which unlike Kansas City’s public schools – did not shut down the day of the parade and rally.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
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Mitchell’s first audience of the day was a class from a private school in Greenville, a city three hours away in upper South Carolina.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 29 July 2023
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Harvard-Westlake and other private schools are not governed by the law.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
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Bugliari’s impact is hard to miss at Pingry, a private school in this leafy New Jersey suburb.
—Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
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And soon, far more tax dollars will be flowing into private schools.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
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At that time, school choice, and particularly private school choice, was stuck in a pattern of slow growth.
—Mike McShane, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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Through God, hard work, and a good private school education, the kid from Brooklyn had achieved the American dream.
—Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
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He was even included in a 2004 story in The New Yorker about the strange gifts teachers receive at private schools.
—Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
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The city has also seen soaring costs for children’s private school tuition.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
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Crow also purchased Thomas’ mother’s home and paid private school tuition for the child Thomas was raising as his son.
—Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
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In almost all states—New Jersey and Iowa being the exceptions—it's allowed in private schools.
—Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
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Families alone know what is best for their child whether public school, charter school, private school, or home school.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
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Police departments statewide will soon be urged to apply for a slice of a $5 million grant to figure out how to make their private schools safer.
—Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
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But in recent years he has been reduced to taking part-time work as a night security guard at a private school for $20 per hour.
—Ethan Ward, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
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Roberts, writing for the court's majority, noted that a state doesn’t have to provide money to private schools.
—John Fritze, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
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There’s a broader conversation to be had, of course, about the resource gap between public and private schools.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
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