On Air Today: Representative Graig Meyer

Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS North Carolina legislators have ordered additional oversight of the chief nonprofit body that manages high school sports, finalizing legislation Friday that seeks to leave more rule-making in the hands of state education leaders. In separate House and Senate votes, the General Assembly passed a bill that for months had focused solely on […]

Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON Formal agreements reached between North Carolina’s education board and two nonprofit bodies that already run high school athletic competitions in the state will take effect next month. The initial memorandums of understanding entered into with the State Board of Education are in keeping with a 2021 state law that sought more rigorous […]

Written by BRYAN ANDERSON North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper approved a measure Tuesday for a new governing structure for high school sports. The new law allows the State Board of Education to create a formal agreement with the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, the nonprofit body currently governing high school athletics. Under the compromise […]

Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON The North Carolina High School Athletic Association would be replaced by a proposed state commission to oversee interscholastic public school sports in a measure unveiled Tuesday in a legislative committee. The bill, which received a hearing by a Senate education panel, comes after Republican lawmakers have publicly questioned association leaders […]

Written by HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom. GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate enacted — over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition […]

Written by HANNAH SCHOENBAUM A bill banning transgender girls from playing on the middle school, high school and college sports teams that align with their gender identity is approaching the finish line in North Carolina as GOP-controlled state legislatures nationwide round out a record year of legislation targeting transgender residents. The North Carolina bill, which […]

Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON Legislation that likely will create a formal agreement between the nonprofit body currently governing North Carolina high school sports and state education leaders received final approval on Wednesday. The compromise scales back specific demands previously advanced by legislators that the North Carolina High School Athletic Association fought against. The House […]

Senate Republicans shelved a proposal Thursday to end the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s oversight of interscholastic sports, replacing it with constraints upon the group’s finances and transparency in decision-making activities. A bill approved last month by the Senate education committee would have created a new state athletic commission, its members chosen by the governor and […]

Legislation to replace the North Carolina High School Athletic Association with a new commission to administer interscholastic sports advanced through another Senate committee on Thursday. The Senate Finance Committee recommended the measure, which would create a panel of 17 educators, athletic directors and coaches chosen by the governor and legislative leaders called the North Carolina Interscholastic […]

North Carolina's District 50 Representative Graig Meyer joins 97.9 The Hill's Brighton McConnell to discuss some of the recent discussions and bills around the General Assembly. That includes some about the state budget, medicinal marijuana, energy rates and high school sports.