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

So many charter schools now but the environment is the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

When you add charter schools, there were close to 140 schools’ athletes participating in the prelims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Sandringham was what we call a Model C school, which meant it was a mix of government and private, similar to charter schools in America.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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