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单词 charter school
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Charter Schooln.

Forms: also with lower-case initial(s).
Origin: Formed witin English, by compounding. Etymons: charter n.1, school n.1
Etymology: < charter n.1 + school n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈCharter School.
The name given to schools established in Ireland by the Charter Society founded in 1733, to provide Protestant education for the Catholic poor. In 1745 a special tax was devoted by parliament to their support.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1763 Duke of Northumberland Speech Irish Parl. in Ann. Reg. 197/1 For this purpose your protestant Charter schools were established.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 206 [Galway] has..a charter-school, and an hospital.
1881 J. A. Froude Eng. in Ireland I. 573 The long celebrated Charter Schools so fiercely condemned by the Catholic priests.
1883 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. 200.

Draft additions March 2006

With lower-case initials.
U.S. A school affiliated by charter with others (usually in the same region) for the purpose of athletic competition, etc.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1912 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 22 Apr. 5/5 Delavan, one of the charter schools in the Corn Belt Oratorical and Athletic association..is out of the association this year and probably for good.
1946 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 27 Apr. 6/2 It is the hope of charter schools that the conference will grow into a 10 or 12 team circuit.
1976 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit.-Tribune 19 Mar. 3/2 The seven charter schools gathered in Brookfield last night for the final time.
1987 Washington Post 4 June dc3/4 The Washington Parent Group Fund, a fund-raising organization for public schools in low-income neighborhoods, presented awards to supporting corporations and foundations and ‘graduated’ one of its charter schools during recent ceremonies.
North American (originally U.S.). A publicly funded school, established as an autonomous institution with educational goals set by its board, and operating by contract or charter with a local school board or the State.Now the usual sense in North America.
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1988 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 9 Oct. 4 b/4 To create diversity, Shanker advocated autonomous charter schools, where school boards establish a mission, then relinquish control for a period of years.
1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 May a7/1 A year ago, Alberta was the first province to introduce legislation for charter schools, a strategy imported from the United States that allows parents to set up their own publicly financed schools in co-operation with local school boards.
2003 S. Macedo in School Choice iii. 60 Charter schools have been advanced as a way of providing the benefits of smaller and more-focused schools within an overall public system.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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