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free school
noun
- 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.
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Ichikawa points to Newsom’s decision to make undocumented immigrants eligible to receive state stimulus payments and the state’s recent move to provide free school lunches for every public school student, a plan that received bipartisan support.
The benefits would be available to families eligible for free school lunch, Pell Grant recipients, and people who have lost their jobs.
They could send their children to charters – which are free schools, open to the public – but data suggests charter school students are among the least likely to be open for in-person learning in the county.
Steady expansions since have transformed free school meal programs into a crucial support for children whose caregivers’ incomes don’t fill the pantry.
Serving every child free school meals would remove that stigma, advocates argue.
Deloitte CEO Joe Echevarria said he ate free school breakfasts and lunches during his youth in the South Bronx.
He went to a regular, free school and is - gasp - 'the son of a retailer'.
So mamma said I might go to a little free school opposite, half-a-day, when I felt like it, and perhaps that would amuse me.
At the Free School Street end new buildings have taken the place of old and antiquated ones.
In 1636 he contributed to the maintenance of a free school and in 1656 to the building of the town house.
I went to the Jews' Free School, which was turned into a synagogue, and passed the whole day in tearful supplication.
What music is sweeter than the singing of birds, the ringing of free school bells and the hum of machinery?
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