separate school

British

noun

(in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education

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Example Sentences

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The cost to D.C. taxpayers to operate two separate school sectors is high.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

And a county with 11 separate school districts, at that.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

It is a separate school from Braniel, but was to be housed in a classroom on the site of the 400-pupil primary.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2021

Fulton County includes Atlanta, although the city has its own separate school district.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2020

In another Brown decision in 1955, the court ruled that the dismantling of separate school systems must happen with “all deliberate speed.”

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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