By Roberta Baker, The Laconia Daily Sun
OSSIPEE — A non-profit dedicated to providing classical education through studying texts from Western civilization has received a $1.1 million federal grant to open North Star Academy, a public charter school in the Ossipee area, with the first students entering in fall 2024.
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