The Manteo Elementary School principal, who is a former district principal of the year, will exchange leadership roles with one of First Flight High School’s assistant principals. The transfers are effective next Monday, Oct. 6, according to the district superintendent.

North Carolina leaders announced Friday afternoon that the Trump administration reversed course and will release the nearly $7 billion in public school funding across the nation it had frozen indefinitely the day before its scheduled July 1 release.

The Trump administration’s recent freeze of federal public school funding totals over $750,000 across Outer Banks area public school districts.

Over $1 million in Opportunity Scholarship funding was distributed to 195 Outer Banks students attending private schools during the recently concluded 2024-25 school year, state records show.