Public schools are often viewed as infallible sacred cows.

公立学校常被认为是批评的禁区。

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Schools are riding a wave of renewed public interest.

各校重新受益于公众的关注。

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Schools are the latest victims of cuts in public spending.

学校是削减公共开支的最新的牺牲品。

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Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

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You are an educator, as Dean of one of the most distinguished schools of Public And International Affairs, and one of the prominent universities in America or in the world, what is your sense of the students that you teach and train?

您是一名教育学家，作为最知名的公共与国际事务学院之一的院长，美国最著名的大学之一,甚至是世界最著名的大学之一，您认为现在的学生,您所教过或培训过的？

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like some public schools, you're not allowed to say like God and stuff and pledge of allegiance.

像在有的公立学校，你不许说上帝这样的词，也不许表达对上帝的忠诚。

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Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.

ECONOMIST: Sorting out school choice

And that is that in most states you now have a mechanism where you set up a public school -- so this is not private schools, these are public schools receiving public dollars -- but they have a charter that allows them to experiment and try new things.

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They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools.

CNN: Poor grade for vouchers