free school

noun

1. a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.

Example Sentences

Highlighting her record as education secretary, Phillipson said she had fought "tooth and nail" for policies like the expansion of free school meals.

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The county council says it has partnered with Feeding Gloucestershire, an organisation working to identify food inequality, and has extended free school meals to holidays.

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The council is also providing families eligible for free school meals with vouchers to help cover food costs during the school holidays.

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More than 1,000 children have fallen ill from free school lunches in Indonesia this week, according to authorities – the latest in a string of mass food poisoning events linked to President Prabowo Subianto's multi-billion-dollar nutritious meals programme.

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While the programme is "well-intentioned", Maria Monica Wihardja, a visiting fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, previously told the BBC there has been "no evidence" of "widespread urgency" for free school meals.

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