Definitions
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- n. establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school
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Christopher Bernhard of Galen (1650-78) was equally efficient both as bishop and as secular ruler; he forced the refractory city of Münster, after a long siege, to acknowledge his sovereign rights, succeeded in freeing his territory from foreign troops, gained parts of the Archdiocese of Bremen and of the Diocese of Werden in a war with Sweden, restored church discipline, and established a school system for his territory.
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In a short time he united with one of the senior Chaplains in the Army, Post Chaplain Orville J. Nave, whom he felt was thoroughly prepared to take the initiative in the matter of building up a better school system in the regular Army.
Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army
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As in former pastorates, he was expected here to teach the children of the members in the common school branches, there being no common school system in the city.
Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army
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[Page 328] to forward in the public school system the solution of some of these problems of delinquency so dependent upon truancy and ill-adapted education that I became a member of the Chicago Board of Education in July, 1905.
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The public educational system of the state consists of a common school system in which each county is a school-district, and in which many of the municipalities constitute separate school-districts.
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“What we have done,” says Thomas Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, “is we have a K–12 school system that seems to work relatively well for girls and does not work for a very large share of boys.”
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The school system of Canada, which has since been moulded by the skilful hand of Dr. Ryerson into one of the best in the world, and which will give to his industry and genius a more enduring record than stone or brass, was in my day very imperfect indeed.
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He was the first black superintendent of Halifax Schools in Halifax County about 6-7 years ago and he was there -- it was that school system that experimented with the
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His real monument, however, says S.L. Morris, is "every republican government on earth, the public school system of all nations, and 'The Reformed Churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian System.'"
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Having been a product of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system myself as a student, teaching in junior high school and coaching when we had the desegregation I was transferred to South Mecklenburg High School.
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