- July 12, 2025
Flagler Schools will be filling two vacant principal positions this summer.
Buddy Taylor Middle School Principal Cara Cronk and her husband, Indian Trails Middle School Assistant Principal Justin Cronk, are both retiring.
On May 28, Matanzas High School Principal Kristin Bozeman announced she was resigning and moving with her family to western North Carolina.
At the School Board's agenda workshop on June 10, Superintendent LaShakia Moore said she was "proud of the work both have done on behalf of the students of Flagler County."
Cara Cronk has been in education for 31 years, the last 21 in Flagler Schools. She was an English teacher and literacy coach at Indian Trails from 2004 to 2016 before serving as an assistant principal at Matanzas for two years.
She became an assistant principal at Buddy Taylor Middle School in 2018 and was named the principal at BTMS in November, 2020, during the remote/hybrid year.
She said the school district has grown quite a bit in the past 21 years.
"The technology has increased in unbelievable ways," she said. "A lot of theings have stayed the same, but Flagler Schools has never remained stagnant. Flagler Forward is not just a saying. Everyone wants to do better for our students and families, and that's the driving motivation."
Cara said she and Justin will do some traveling, spend time with their two grand babies — their second one is on the way — and attend some North Carolina State football games, where their nephew, defensive end Colby Cronk, will be a freshman this fall.
