separate school

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

He therefore established a separate school, being forced to take this step.

In those districts in which there were too few Negro children to form a separate school, union schools were to be established.

The separate school for colored children is not one of the schools established by the law relating to Public Schools.

Earnest war will be waged with the separate school system, which has unfortunately obtained a footing.

In 1756 the artillery was organized into seven regiments, each regiment having its own separate school.

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