The public high school one block from my home has been turned into an evacuation center.
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Verner, 1963) and parents who refused to send their teenage children to a public high school (Wisconsin v.
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Now, he's enrolled in public high school but takes all of his classes at the University of Minnesota.
As a public high school student at North Hollywood High, she attended a magnet program for highly gifted students.
After graduating from a Montgomery County public high school, I attended the University of Maryland where I earned a B.
Janah grew up in various suburbs of Los Angeles in a family she describes as not well-off and attended public high school.
Officials say 80 percent of NYC smokers started before age 21, and an estimated 20, 000 New York City public high school students now smoke.
Mr. Holmes graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a new public high school in one of the best school districts in the region.
Tracy had been in discussion with Karlie's public high school about alternative education programs, and they were coordinating an online curriculum for her daily classes.
"I always have to pick my battles, " said Ms. Charles, who is a school secretary and whose husband is a history teacher at a public high school.
Even the local public high school treated us with great respect and consideration when I needed to register three of my kids to sit for the PSAT exam.
Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.
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Public high school graduation rates peaked around 1970, and data show that reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) fell slightly between 1992 and 2008.
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Nearly three-quarters stated that the program gave them skills to succeed in the classroom, no small benefit given that 25% of American public high school students drop out before graduation.
The New York Public High School Athletic Association, to accommodate the trend, last month revised a regulation so small teams that combine are not automatically bumped into a more competitive division.
About 90% of the students in the building that houses kindergarten to third graders are Hispanic, said Superintendent Robin Stevens, and six of every 10 students in Schuyler's public high school are Hispanic.
Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
Another team from a public high school in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia successfully created a low carbon emissions and ultra-high efficiency alternative fuel vehicle which competed against collegiate and corporate teams.
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This year, eighth-graders won't find out whether they won a coveted spot in a top public high school until two days after the March 13 deadline for private-school tuition deposits, which can cost thousands of dollars.
Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.
To give a feel for the students that this Colorado public high school serves, of the 176 students graduating, 12 were over 21 years in age, 33 were parents, and a few were serving in the military.
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As a parent of a 15-year-old who goes to Stuyvesant, a test-in public high school with a rigorous curriculum and frequent tests, I am ambivalent about the notion that schools across the country would adopt yet more tests.
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He is now 15 years old and attends a New York City public high school where two armed police officers stand guard at the entrance and students need to go through a metal detector every day as they enter the building.
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Klein attended a public art high school on 57th Street in New York and then graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Before the headline-grabbing school prayer battle, which began as a shoot-from-the-hip challenge to her older son's Baltimore public junior high school, O'Hair had no assets of her own to speak of.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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Certainly, not Jesuit of New Orleans, a private high school and Edna Karr High School, a public charter school in the New Orleans area.
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Starting in middle school, and especially in high school, public school children commute to a school that is outside their neighborhood.
Walt went to public school, and in high school he started writing a column with his friend James Woods.
But the severe recession from which we are still recovering has caused serious budget problems for many state and local governments, which fund the vast majority of the costs of public elementary through high school education.
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