charter schools

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of charter school.
  charter school

  noun

  an autonomous public school created by a contract between a sponsor, as a local school district or corporation, and an organizer, as a group of teachers or a community group, often with a curriculum or focus that is not traditional.

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charter schools

Decades later, Will Dobbie and I studied charter schools serving similar children but producing different results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Garcha also must compete for students with independently operated charter schools and popular district magnet schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

But charter schools choose students by lottery, not based on academic ability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

It also was a first for Green Dot, which typically had created new public charter schools from scratch, one grade at a time, to instill a strong culture of motivated families who assertively opt in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Lee is a traditionalist, like many in Levittown, and no fan of charter schools or anything else that scrapes money away from school systems.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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