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Public school

State school in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Scotland, and the United States; a school funded with tax revenue and administered by a government or governmental agency

Public university, in some countries, e.g. the United States, any university operated by the state, as opposed to being a private enterprise


Alice Hamlin Hinman

Alice Hamlin Hinman a psychologist who changed the public school education system from backwards to progressive from 1907 to 1919 through her influence and membership on the Lincoln board of education.

Austin Lane Crothers

Educated at West Nottingham Academy, he spent several years in the work force, first as a store clerk, then as a public school teacher.

Biofuels Center of North Carolina

The Strategic Convening was attended by representatives from North Carolina public schools, North Carolina Community College System, University System, industry, nonprofits and others.

Bishop Barrow Trust

It was not until a hundred and seventy five years later, in 1833, that King William's College, a fee-paying public school rather than a university, opened its doors.

Bryant Bowles

In May 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional.

Clarence Public School

Clarence Public School is a public school in the Bangalore South taluk of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Diemen

The three public schools are De Octopus, De Venser, and 't Palet.

Don Collins Reed

Between 2003 and 2009, Reed observed and volunteered in public school and preschool classrooms in Springfield, Ohio, and served on the Board of Education of Springfield City Schools.

Duke Ellington Fellowship Program

The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students and young musicians from the New Haven public school system.

Eastern Shore District High School

Eastern Shore District High School is a Canadian public school in the Musquodoboit Harbour area east of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda

Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda (Sá de Miranda Secondary school) is a Public school, located in São Vicente, Braga, Portugal.

Freedom of religion in the Central African Republic

Although the Government does not explicitly prohibit religious instruction in public schools, such instruction is not part of the overall public school curriculum, nor is it common.

Government College Umuahia

These three institutions, Government College Umuahia (GCU), Government College, Ibadan and Government College Zaria (Barewa College), were designed to follow the traditions of British "public schools" such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester.

Griffith High School

Griffith High School is a coeducational, New South Wales government public school located in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia.

Harold L. Runnels

Runnels attended Dallas public schools and Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, Oklahoma.

Insight on the News

Soon after Insight's story, CNN reporter John Vause visited State Elementary School Menteng 01, a secular public school which Obama had attended for one year after attending a Roman Catholic school for three, and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith.

Joseph Lawson Howze

He was later transferred to the segregated public schools of Mobile, graduating from Mobile County Secondary School in 1944.

Maquoketa, Iowa

The Maquoketa Community School District, in partnership with the community, oversees the public school system of education for the city of Maquoketa and the surrounding area.

Pedro Tuazon

Born in Balanga, Bataan on 15 September 1884 to Clemente Tuazon and Josefa Tiangco, Pedro Tuazon attended the public school in his town and at an escuela de segunda ensenanza.

Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association

The Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association Inc (QGSSSA) is a sporting association for girls from eight private girls' schools, one co-educational private school, and one co-educational public school, based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Ray Hanson

To this day, Western Illinois University is the only public school in the U.S. that has permission through the Department of the Navy to use the United States Marine Corps official seal and mascot (the Bulldog) along with the nickname.

Robert F. Young

Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.

Slingsby T.21

This was the T.21B, which first flew in December 1947 and went into quantity production both for the RAF (named the Sedbergh TX.1 after the public school of that name) and for civilian clubs.

Southport Rugby Football Club

In line with the origins of the modern game, the club was originally composed of old public school boys, and was formed with the intention of improving the physical development of our young townsmen. The driving force behind the formation of the club was Dr George Coombe (later Sir George Augustus Pilkington) of Southport Infirmary.

Stoneham High School

Stoneham High School is a comprehensive, four-year public school located in Stoneham, Massachusetts that offers a range of Comprehensive to Advanced Placement Program courses.

Tell England

The novel predates the Just William books and Molesworth stories, but begins in a similar fashion to these books, describing the school lives of Rupert Ray and his friends at their public school, Kensingstowe.

The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs

The students at South Park Elementary are assigned to read The Catcher in the Rye, and grow excited when Mr. Garrison tells them that the book has caused so much controversy, it has been banned from public schools in the past.

Virgil Blossom

In 1955, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that American public schools must be integrated, Blossom developed a plan for gradual integration that was put into effect in 1957, despite opposition from Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus.

Virginia Civil Rights Memorial

Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County was eventually one of the four cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1954, officially overturned racial segregation in U.S. public schools.

Westville Girls' High School

Westville Girls' High School,(or WGHS), is a public school for girls in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.


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Abbottabad Jamia Public School

Abbottabad Jamia Public School (or AJPC) is located at College Road, Karimpura, Abbottabad city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan.

Akoupé-Zeudji

Akoupé-Zeudji has a private school and a public school, built by the government of the Abidjan Department under the leadership of Governor Pierre Djédji Amondji, and also has a community centre, a private vocational training centre, and a nightclub.

Alfred H. Grebe

At the age of 9 he was given a radio set by his father, and soon came to be such an expert that his science teacher at Public School 88 in Jamaica said Alfred knew more than he did.

Alice Fong Yu

Alice Fong Yu (2 March 1905 - 19 December 2000) was the first Chinese American public school teacher in California, founder of the Square and Circle Club, and a prominent leader in the San Francisco Chinatown community.

Bassett Unified School District

Bassett Unified School District is a public school district based in Los Angeles County, CA, United States

Beverley Acres Public School

In 2007, Beverley Acres Public School celebrated 50 years of education with BBQ and a rehearsal of all the after school plans, including the musical "The Music Man" which was performed by the grade 7 and 8 students of the school.

Boys' Town Public School

Boys' Town Public School, in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, is one of the oldest English medium schools in the region.

Calcutta Public School

Calcutta Public School is an all-grade primary, secondary and higher secondary school providing education from L.N (lower nursery) to ISC (class -12) according to the national curriculum of the Council for Indian School Certificate Exams, New Delhi.

Central Baldwin

The unofficial boundary is generally considered to be the public school district served by Robertsdale High School.

Charles Wordsworth

In 1846, however, he resigned; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to WE Gladstone.

Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

The main campus for Lakeshore Technical College is located in the village, while public school students are a part of the Sheboygan Area School District; the district maintains Cleveland Elementary School in the village, and those students usually attend Horace Mann Middle School and Sheboygan North High School in the city of Sheboygan later on if they have no school choice preference.

Cowell Area School

Cowell Area School is an R-12 Government Public school in Cowell, a small costal town 494 km away from Adelaide, South Australia in the District Council of Franklin Harbour district.

David Allan Young

He then taught science at the Louisville Public School System and later studied entomology at the Cornell University and obtained a Master of Science in 1942.

Durham School

Durham School, rebuilt in 1661, on the Palace Green, soon became, instead of a local grammar school, a north-country public school of repute and wide influence.

Ed Husic

Husic was raised in Western Sydney and was educated at Blacktown South Public School, Mitchell High School and the University of Western Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications.

Estell Manor, New Jersey

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Buena Regional High School, which serves students from Buena Borough and Buena Vista Township, together with students from Estell Manor City Newfield and Weymouth Township who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Buena Regional School District.

Excel Academy

Excel Academy (San Antonio, Texas), a public school in San Antonio, Texas, operated by the Northside Independent School District

Friedrich von Bodenstedt

This led to his appointment in 1844 as the head of a public school at Tiflis, Governorate of Tiflis (present-day Georgia).

GFPS

Grand Forks Public Schools, the public school system of Grand Forks, North Dakota

Grand Lake, Louisiana

Grand Lake School is a primary and secondary public school run by the Cameron Parish School Board with grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12.

Green Grove Public School

Green Grove Public School stands like a colossus amidst acres of agricultural activity in Mohanpur area of Ludhiana district.

H. T. Chen

The building, a converted historic public school by noted architect C. B. J. Snyder, also houses other community organizations.

Haliwa-Saponi

While the Reconstruction legislature established public school systems for the first time after the American Civil War, legislators were forced to accept segregated schools to get the bill passed.

Hazel McCallion Senior Public School

Hazel McCallion public school is named after the current mayor of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion.

Hodgson Vo-Tech High School

Paul M. Hodgson Vocational-Technical High School is a public school in Newark, Delaware and is among four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, and St. Georges Technical High School in St. Georges.

Humphry Berkeley

His studies were interrupted when he was excluded ('sent down') for two years as a result of a practical joke in which he impersonated 'H. Rochester Sneath', the headmaster of a rather odd public school, and wrote hoax letters to public figures.

Irv Smith

He played high school football for Pemberton Township High School, a small public school located in Pemberton Township in South Jersey a few miles from Fort Dix/McGuire Air Force Base.

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

Karns High School

Karns High School is a public high school in the Karns community of Knox County, Tennessee administered by the Knox County Schools public school district.

Little Angels Public School

The Little Angels Public School is located at Jaggayyapeta, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Mariposa County Unified School District

Mariposa County Unified School District is a public school district based in Mariposa County, California, United States.

MassResistance

Parents' Rights Coalition opposed a Massachusetts public school teacher reading of King & King, a fairy tale involving two married men, to kindergartners.

Mount Pleasant Community School District

The Mount Pleasant Community School District is the public school system serving the city of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and the surrounding area, primarily Salem, Westwood, Rome, Swedesburg, and rural students.

Mountain House School District

Mountain House Elem Sch is a public school district based in Alameda County, California, United States.

Napoleon Community Schools

Napoleon Community Schools is a public school district located in Napoleon, Michigan, approximately 7 miles South East of Jackson, Michigan.

North Carolina Learning Object Repository

NCLOR participants include the 58 colleges from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), University of North Carolina (UNC ) System, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (36 private institutions), the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS).

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Papa John's Cardinal Stadium

Most notably, PJCS is the regular host of two major city rivalries—the Catholic rivalry between St. Xavier and Trinity, which regularly draws crowds in the 35,000 range; and the Male-Manual game, a public-school battle which is the longest running, continuously played high school football rivalry in America.

President's College

President's College, Minuwangoda, a public school located in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka

R. H. King Academy

Feeder schools for R. H. King Academy are John A. Leslie Public School, Bliss Carman Senior Public School, Robert Service Public School, Fairmount Public School and Anson Park Public School.

Shivajirao Girdhar Patil

The trust runs a Smita Patil Public School in the village of Dahiwad in Shirpur taluka of Dhule district with a mission to impart quality education to students in rural area.

Spencer Christian

He began his broadcasting career at WWBT in Richmond, Virginia as a news reporter, covering state and local politics, the public school system, and landmark cases in the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals.

St. John/Endicott High School

John/Endicott High School is a US public school located in St. John, Washington.

Swami Roop Chand Jain Sr. Sec. public School

Sec. public School, established in 1985, is one of Jagraon city's most prestigious educational institute.

Tim Kirkman

Writer and director Tim Kirkman was born on November 2, 1966 in Monroe, North Carolina, the third child of a public school educator and a music teacher, and spent his childhood in nearby Wingate, North Carolina.

Tom Gjelten

Gjelten is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and began his professional career as a public school teacher at the North Haven Community School, North Haven, Maine, and as a freelance writer.

Trout Lake School

Trout Lake School is a public school that serves 88 students in grades K–12 located in Trout Lake, Washington.

Washougal High School

Washougal High School is a public school in the Washougal School District founded in the early 1900s in Clark County, Washington.

Woodstock Public School

Woodstock Public School is a private school located in the city of Batala, Punjab, India.

Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu

As the school grew, Ohr Eliyahu relocated to a former Culver City public school near Kenneth Hahn State Park.