[填空题]Public schools are independent secondary school nm privately. The applicants must take______at the age of 11 for gifts and 13 for boys.

[填空题]Public schools are independent secondary school nm privately. The applicants must take______at the age of 11 for gifts and 13 for boys.

[判断题]A private school was called a public school in Britain.

[单项选择]A new analysis of federal money that public schools receive for low-income students shows that a record number of the nation’s school districts will receive less in the coming academic year than they did for the one just ended.
For the 2005-2006 school year, spending under the Department of Education’s Title I program, which helps low-achieving children in high-poverty areas, is increasing by 3.2 percent, to $12.6 billion. But because of population shifts, growing numbers of poor children, newer census data and complex formulas that determine how the money is divided, more than two-thirds of the districts, or 8,843, will not receive as much financing as before.
The analysis, based on data from the department, was made by the Center on Education Policy, a group advocating for public schools. A similar study by the group last year showed that 55 percent of the schools would receive less money than they did in the previous year.
"It’s an alarming number," said Tom Fagan, a
A. studied the federal money spent on low-income students
B. aimed at promoting the establishment of more public schools
C. showed that about half the schools would receive .less money
D. was conducted by the Department of Education’s Title I program

[单项选择]Who set (s) the public school calendars
A. Federal government.
B. Individual public schools.
C. The education chief.
D. Individual states and districts.

[填空题]Most United States high schools are free public schools (support)（）chiefly by state and local taxes.

[单项选择]In addition, there are specialized public schools for the ______, and for those with other special needs, as well as accelerated and enriched courses for gifted students.
A. indulged
B. handicapped
C. kidnapped
D. invalid

[单项选择]

Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers—now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Youses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine (巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Harmon, and he was the first teacher hired.
The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U.S. Government. Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B visas. The Government grants these visas only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’t be fill
A. there were not enough American teachers
B. a program for foreign teachers was started.
C. the school board was interested in foreign teachers
D. foreign teachers taught better than American teachers