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Should uniforms be required in public school in New York State?

Identify keywords	Identify Synonyms of the keywords (similar word)
uniforms	dress code
public school	school, grade school, elementary school, high school
New York	NY, NYC, New York City
benefit	value
negative

Create 3 search strategy (combination of keywords plus search techniques)

Mainly used in Academic Search

uniform* AND "public school"

"dress code" AND public AND "grade school"

"school uniforms" AND benefit AND public