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Examples of consolidated school in a Sentence
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If the school board approves the plan, the district would use money from the 2021 bond issue that was designated for school improvements to construct new buildings to house the consolidated schools.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
Under the consolidation proposal, the money that was designated to pay for those upgrades would instead go toward the construction of new consolidated schools.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2024
That would hurt the economies of the areas around the consolidated schools, including both job loss and tax revenue decline, the study predicted.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
Coaches: Parke Heritage coach Rich Schelsky is 93-42 in his fifth season at the consolidated school of Rockville and Turkey Run.
—Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2023
To complicate matters, the Dollarway School District, which sopped up all of the consolidated school districts from across the river over the years, itself failed and was combined with the Pine Bluff School District.
—Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023
LaCrosse closed as a school at the end of the 2021-22 school year, but the consolidated school, Tri-Township, still plays its home games in the gym, which was built in 1950 and has a unique old-school atmosphere.
—The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023
Much of the uncertainty stems from legal ambiguity under Act 46, a Vermont law passed in 2015 that controversially consolidated school districts to improve efficiencies and education outcomes.
—Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
The town’s school is closed, and the few school-age kids who remain take a long bus ride to a consolidated school elsewhere.
—Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1869, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of consolidated school was
in 1869
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“Consolidated school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consolidated%20school. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
consolidated school
noun
: a public school that is formed by joining other schools together
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