charter school
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɑːrtər skuːl/
- US
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escuela chárter (EE. UU.)
- Will a school get better if it is turned into a charter school?
- public charter school
- attend a charter school
- charter school students
Or wait a second, couldn't it also mean that you're for charter schools?
- Or wait a second, couldn't it also mean that you're for charter schools?
- And meanwhile you have a corporate system of charter schools that have eaten up the children from public schools.
- I have more public schools and I have the second most charter schools in the state in my district and also have a lot of special needs kids.
- Now more than half the students in the city go to charter schools, and standards are rising.
- OK, to me, and again to charter school by themselves, that's not the answer.
- That every charter school has the right to extend its grades.
- So when a kid applies to charter school and the schools have to randomize who they take in.
- And it's a nonprofit, other nonprofits to do the same thing, which is build big networks of charter schools that then share ideas.
- And so through that, that education journey and we'd written some papers on charter schools that people didn't love.
- Otherwise, if, if you don't, you're going to have, you know, well, some of you might like charter schools and things like that.
- Other district schools, charter schools, some places private schools, virtual schools, right on down the list.
Examples
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I have worked in the public and charter school settings and at the university level.
Academic text (2015) -
The number of charter schools keeps growing, the report says, arts-infused charter schools among them.
Academic text (2000) -
Now more than half the students in the city go to charter schools, and standards are rising.
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Another attempt at improving public education is charter schools, institutions more or less free of district control.
Academic text (1996) -
There's a charter school right down the street.
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About fifteen groups have developed proposals for charter schools since the law was adopted in 1991.
Academic text (1992) -
A total of forty-eight school districts and charter schools were involved in the survey.
Academic text (2004) -
A little more than 20 years later, in 2013, more than 5,600 charter schools exist in 39 states.
Academic text (2013) -
We developed the course in partnership with a charter school in a midsize, urban southeastern city.
Academic text (2013) -
Many parents choose to send their children to a charter school for its innovative teaching methods.
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school established or authorized under a charter' is directly derivable from combining 'charter' (to authorize/establish) with 'school' (an educational institution). This modifier+head composition follows a transparent, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term charter school comes from the word charter, a written agreement that gives permission to do things differently, and school for the place where students learn. So a charter school is a school started under that written promise, which is why it is public but has more freedom, meaning 'a publicly funded independent school'.