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common school

n.
A public elementary school.
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com′mon school`


n.
a public school, usu. of elementary grades.
[1650–60, Amer.]
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It was the father of our new acquaintance, the Judge, who first began to reascend in the scale of society; and in this undertaking he was not a little assisted by a marriage, which aided in furnishing the means of educating his only son in a rather better manner than the low state of the common schools of Pennsylvania could promise; or than had been the practice in the family for the two or three preceding generations.
We have a comparatively decent system of common schools, schools for infants only; but excepting the half-starved Lyceum in the winter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library suggested by the State, no school for ourselves.
It dealt, in elaborate detail, with one factor in the persistence of the established, namely, the capitalistic bias of the universities and common schools. It was a logical and crushing indictment of the whole system of education that developed in the minds of the students only such ideas as were favorable to the capitalistic regime, to the exclusion of all ideas that were inimical and subversive.
In three years, from a sailor with a common school education, I made a successful writer of him.
She is known only as parlourboarder at a common school. She is not a sensible girl, nor a girl of any information.
The funding issue was entangled in an ongoing debate over the role religion would play in the emerging system of public schools (then called "common schools").
According to the court, the initiative authorizing charters suffered from two constitutional problems: 1) charter schools are not "common" schools, because they are not controlled by school boards, and 2) charters would divert money reserved for common schools. The state constitution's education clause stipulates that "the public school system shall include common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may hereafter be established." It also creates a "common school fund" that must "be exclusively applied to the support of the common schools."
Several chapters of Founding Zealots are primarily biographical, featuring ten to fifteen men who were key actors speaking and writing on behalf of common schools in several states.
MUZAFFARABAD -- Speaker AJK legislative Assembly Sardar Ghulam Sadiq Khan has said that he would bring all efforts to make inclusive education as compulsory component in the State to enable the disable and special children most productive in the society by providing them equal learning opportunities in common schools.
Once registration is complete Local Circles connects member based on common interests, location, work place, common schools, etc.
"Proponents of the common schools not only sought to take affirmative steps to provide for a public education, but also recognized the need to prevent diversion of funds to private, religious schools," the AU brief asserts.