A Lakes Region high school using a 2009 state law to bring in out-of-district students could become the model for a new push toward open enrollment in New Hampshire.

Prospect Mountain High School in Alton turned to open enrollment as its student population declined. That approach is a way “to save public schools,” said state Rep. Katy Peternel (R-Wolfeboro), vice chair of the House Education Policy and Administration Committee and the featured speaker at Americans for Prosperity–New Hampshire’s recent “Breaking the Education Monopoly” event.

The move comes as school choice supporters have notched major victories, including the passage of universal access to Education Freedom Accounts, signed into law by Gov. Kelly Ayotte earlier this year. Now, Peternel and other Republicans want to ex

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