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  • The D.C. schools chief, one of the stars of "Waiting for 'Superman,'." showed up to the E Street Cinema's 2: 30 p.m. screening of the public-schools documentary with her daughters.

    Hey, isn't that...?: Michelle Rhee at E Street Cinema The Reliable Source 2010

  • Brown has two children at Eaton Elementary School in Northwest, and his wife is a public-schools employee.

    D.C. school system enrollment up, city official expected to announce Bill Turque 2010

  • The state approved the plan in a Feb. 8 letter, which the Detroit public-schools district released Monday.

    Detroit Schools' Cuts Plan Approved Matthew Dolan 2011

  • Brown has two children at Eaton Elementary School in Northwest, and his wife is a public-schools employee.

    D.C. school system enrollment up, city official expected to announce Bill Turque 2010

  • New York City's public-schools calendar is throwing off some summer plans.

    Schools Schedule Stirs Parental Ire 2010

  • Lauren Hill, project director at the Education Law Center, a Newark-based public-schools advocacy organization that often sides with the teachers union, said the bill is also flawed because it helps only some students, while most students will stay behind in failing schools.

    Voucher Bill on Hold in N.J. 2010

  • Texas was said to have good public-schools, and it was my plan to try the "Lone Star State."

    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888 Various

  • Beginning in the public-schools he had learned about his country -- the country which was his, if not Corydon's.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • They gathered a population of humble serfs, selected from twenty or thirty races of hereditary bondsmen; but owing to the absurd American custom of having public-schools, the children of this population learned to speak English, and even to read it.

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

  • For the real differences of thought and feeling between you and your neighbour were there when you were children, and your agreements are the result of the subsequent community of interests which you have shared -- in similar public-schools, universities, services, or professions.

    If I May 1919

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