Amends GS 115C-12(23) (Powers and duties of the State Board of Education generally) and GS 115C-47(4) (Powers and duties generally of local boards of education) as the title indicates. Enacts new GS 115C-565.1 to provide guidelines governing the eligibility and participation of home-schooled students in interscholastic athletics. Requires a home-schooled student to register the student's intent to participate in interscholastic athletics at the selected school before the beginning date of the season for the activity in which the student wishes to participate. Provides that the principal of the school at which a home schooled student would like to participate in interscholastic athletics makes the final determination on whether to allow participation and the student may not appeal the principal's decision.

The act applies only to home-schooled students living in counties with a population of 200,000 or less. The act applies beginning with the 2013-14 school year.