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unusual facts about Free School



Broadfield House, Crawley

Discovery New School (also known as Discovery Free School) is a Montessori free school which opened in September 2011 at Broadfield House in Crawley, West Sussex.

Howard Ehrlich

Subsequently, he co-founded a collective that produced a successful radio program called the Great Atlantic Radio Conspiracy, a free school, and started a peer-reviewed journal called Social Anarchism.

Sevyn Streeter

Streeter has worked with other artists and producers such as Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Babyface, Polow da Don, Jean-Baptiste/Free School, Pop & Oak, Harmony Samuels and The Runners, and among others over the last few years.

The Future Leaders Trust

He is now Principal of Kings Science Academy, a Free School he helped set up, serving a deprived community in Bradford.

The Godwulf Manuscript

It is being held for ransom by an unknown perpetrator that demands $100,000 be donated to a free school for the manuscript's return.


see also

Al-Madinah School

Al-Madinah School, Derby, an Islamic faith free school in Derbyshire, England

Beccles Free School

The school opened in September 2012 at the site of the former Carlton Colville Primary School, and is the first free school to open in the Waveney district.

Briarcliff Middle School

It is the only Middle School in the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District and is co-located with Briarcliff High School.

Free School Lane

The "Free School" was established in the 17th century by Dr Stephen Perse who left money in his will to educate 100 boys from Cambridge, Barnwell, Chesterton and Trumpington.

Free school meal

Tests of these free-school-meal-to-all programs have been funded by Share Our Strength in some school districts in the United States of America.

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

George Pullman, upon his death in 1897, bequeathed the sum of $1,200,000 to provide for the building and endowment of a "free school of manual training for the benefit of the children of persons living or employed at Pullman." An additional bequest was made by Mrs. Pullman, and the Pullman Free School of Manual Training opened its doors on the site in September, 1915.

Huw Morus

Little is known about the poet's early years, but he may have been educated at the Ruthin Grammar School or at the Free School in Oswestry over the Shropshire border.

Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free School

The Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free School was dedicated on September 27, 1904 in Paterson, New Jersey by Nathan Barnert.

Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet

In 1838 he paid for several philanthropic works in his home town of Leith, all built on Mill Lane, the old western route out of the town, namely: St Thomas' Church (now a Sikh temple); an adjacent manse; a free school for boys; a separate free school for girls; and a "house for female incurables" (what at the time would normally be called a lunatic asylum); and at the end a public rose garden.

Skinners' Academy

The other schools respectively are the Sir Andrew Judd's free school (now called Tonbridge School), The Skinners' School and Sir Andrew Judd's Commercial School (now called The Judd School).

Steve Oh

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Oh studied at Penang Free School and graduated with a Business degree major in Accountancy from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Swain School of Design

Swain began as the "Swain Free School" of New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1881 through the provisions of the will of New Bedford philanthropist William W. Swain.

Thomas Charles Farrar

He learned drawing in a free school established in London by John Ruskin, and came to New York in 1858, where he was a successful painting instructor.

Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet

When Lord Knyvet died in July 1622 his will provided for the foundation of a free-school in Stanwell — the Lord Knyvet School was founded in 1624.

Uduvil Girls' College

The ACM established numerous schools on the peninsula, the first school being the Common Free School (Union College) in Tellippalai.

Walter Mildmay

He also contributed stone for completing the tower of Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and he helped to found the free-school at Middleton, Lancashire.

William Harris Rule

The Jews eventually withdrew on religious grounds and Rule was involved when the Lieutenant Governor William Houston set up the first official free school on Flat Bastion Road in 1832 and he sent his own children there.

William Somner

After passing through the free school at Canterbury, he became clerk to his father, and Archbishop William Laud soon advanced him to be registrar of the ecclesiastical courts of the diocese.