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Dawling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2003
Discusses recent Kentucky case of "Boyd County High School Gay Straight Alliance v. Board of Education of Boyd County" wherein the Kentucky Supreme Court held that the Equal Access Act prohibited school officials from banning the Gay Straight Alliance from meeting in the high school since it had earlier permitted four other noncurricular…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, High Schools, State Courts, Youth Clubs
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1992
On September 30, 1991, the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families convened to celebrate National Children's Day and hear the testimony of youth ambassadors, teachers, and congressional representatives. This record of the congressional hearing includes the spoken and prepared statements of Representatives Patricia Schroeder, Joseph…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Hearings, High Risk Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1994
The Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary convened to discuss the federal role in combating juvenile participation in gangs. A proposed amendment to the crime bill being developed, described at the hearing by Senator Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), makes it a federal offense to engage in gang-related crime and subjects…
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
O'Reilly, Robert C. – 1991
The 1984 United States Equal Access Act is analyzed in this paper, with a focus on the implications of the Supreme Court ruling in "Board of Education of the Wayside County Schools, etc., et al. v. Bridget Mergens" for church/state separation issues in the public schools. The "Mergens" case involved an extracurricular student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
