The public high school one block from my home has been turned into an evacuation center.
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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.
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.
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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And thus, the fights between public and private schools under the same high school association banner growing more intense.
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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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Dad was a legendary high school athletic director for the Bismarck public school system.
One returning speaker is Vincent Gassetto, the principal of a high-performing public middle school in a tough area of the Bronx who urged those in attendance last year not to overlook his diverse and enthusiastic talent pool as arts funding shrivels.
"Only 28% of ninth graders in the Detroit public schools are graduating high school, " he notes.
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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.
Mr. Holmes graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a new public high school in one of the best school districts in the region.
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.
Recent budget issues have raised the spectre of fare hikes, but Trimet provides free transit to all high school students in the Portland Public School District, while other students receive a reduced-fare Youth Pass.
Sometimes, as this article by The Indianapolis Star points out, to the detriment of interest in high school football (where the chasm between public and private schools is the greatest because of the number of players needed to build a strong program).
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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.
In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about Darwin and the Bible.
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After graduating from a Montgomery County public high school, I attended the University of Maryland where I earned a B.
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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Maybe, in the end, there is nothing that these small public schools can do but accept their lot at the bottom of the high school food chain.
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The National Public Health Service for Wales made the discovery after carrying out tests on samples collected at Caereinion High School, near Welshpool.
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In fall 2011, the Florida High School Athletic Association began offering a public-only Class 1A in six sports, including football, with private schools going no lower than 2A in its eight-class system.
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.
Public-school parents accuse the board of the 9, 000-student East Ramapo Central School District of cutting teachers, guidance counselors, art programs, all-day kindergarten and the high school marching band, while diverting public resources to favored Orthodox institutions.
He graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a public school in the San Diego area, school officials said.
Frank Wilson, now the recruiting coordinator and running backs coach at LSU, said he has known Green-Ellis since he was athletic director for the New Orleans public schools and Green-Ellis was a high school star there.
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Authorities said Higazy, who attended elementary and high school in Washington public schools, entered the United States on August 27 on an Egyptian passport with a student visa.
Now, he's enrolled in public high school but takes all of his classes at the University of Minnesota.
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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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.
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.
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