The Hyde County Board of Education is accepting applications through Monday, Aug. 17, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dustin Nails.

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.