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School leaders react to ACC’s decision to move events out of state

N.C. State chancellor Randy Woodson joined North Carolina chancellor Carol Folt on Wednesday in supporting the ACC’s decision to move neutral-site championship events out of North Carolina in the 2016-17 school year because of opposition to House Bill 2.

The ACC’s decision came two days after the NCAA announced it was moving championship events from the state because of HB2, which limits anti-discriminatory protections for the LGBT community and dictates that on state property people use the bathroom of the gender specified on their birth certificate.

The ACC announcement was made after the league’s presidents and chancellors met Tuesday and Wednesday in Clemson, S.