Governor Roy Cooper has signed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics bill into law. House Bill 91 is an effort to reform the management of high school sports in North Carolina amid controversy surrounding the governing body, the N.C. High School Athletics Association. The Senate gave their final approval to the measure earlier Wednesday,...
The N.C. legislature passed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The conference report for this bill is one of several policy measures working its way quickly through committees as lawmakers look to wrap up a drawn-out legislative session. House Bill 91 is an effort to reform the management of high...
The N.C. Senate has given final approval to HB-91, Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics, an effort to reform high school sports in North Carolina. The Senate approved the measure, 28-14, on its third and final reading. Both votes passed with bi-partisan support. Five Democrats voted in support of the measure. “Members, I ask you...
The North Carolina High School Athletics Association would continue to regulate high school sports in North Carolina, under a new version of the reform legislation presented and passed in a state Senate committee. Carolina Journal has been reporting for months on efforts to reform high school sports and specifically the North Carolina High School Athletics...
The N.C. Senate Finance Committee approved a bill Thursday morning that would dramatically alter high school sports governance in the state and end 110 years of control by the N.C. High School Athletics Association. The organization’s commissioner, Que Tucker, tells media that she believes the bill is the product of racism. House Bill 91 heads...
Legislation to dismantle the North Carolina High School Athletic Association passed the Senate Education Committee Wednesday by what appeared to be a unanimous voice vote. The post committee substitute for House Bill 91 proposes to end the private non-profit NCHSAA role in managing and regulating high school sports in the state and set up a...
On Tuesday, the N.C. Senate Education Committee presented a bill that would effectively end the High School Athletic Association’s role in supervising high school athletics, a role the organization has held since 1913. The PCS for House Bill 91, Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics was presented for discussion and is the result of a...
Carolina Journal has been following the movement to reform High School Athletics in North Carolina for more than two months. NCHSAA leaders have defended the organization and called the accusations surrounding the organization “disheartening and infuriating.” CJ wrote in-depth about how we got here, and it was not just because the NCHSAA has amassed an...
The N.C. High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) has no written contract or agreement with the State of North Carolina or the Department of Public Instruction to oversee the management of high school sports in North Carolina and has the largest cash reserves of any such organization in America. These are just two of the issues...
Leaders of the North Carolina High School Athletics Association are scheduled to testify before the newly created, Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations Subcommittee on Interscholastic Athletic an investigative committee formed to examine the operations of the non-profit in charge of North Carolina High School Sports. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tempore...
RALEIGH — State Auditor Beth Wood suggested that the North Carolina High School Athletics Association and Chatham County Schools may have broken the law by assigning a NCHSAA official to the schools’ payroll. A decade ago, state officials went to the mat to protect the pension of a former state worker who took charge of a tax-funded nonprofit children’s museum.
