Over $1 million in state-funded Opportunity Scholarships went to 195 private school students across the Outer Banks. Public and private schools weigh in.
- Corinne Saunders
- 4 days ago
- 11 min read
By Corinne Saunders
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.
Both the funding distributed locally and the number of kindergarten through 12th-grade students receiving it saw an approximately 46% increase from the prior school year.
Through the Opportunity Scholarship program—created by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly in 2013, implemented in 2014 and exponentially expanded since—state taxpayer funding is allocated toward students’ private school tuition and fees.
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