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Crossley, Danielle S. – Online Submission, 2010
School Boards desiring to avoid the requirements of the Equal Access Act (EAA) to prevent students from organizing Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs within their schools may have difficulty doing so. However, legal experts have recently purported ways to accomplish this task in order to avoid the problems that may arise when students attempt to…
Descriptors: Clubs, Homosexuality, High School Students, Student Rights
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2000
Pressured by religious conservatives, Congress passed the Equal Access Act (1984), allowing secondary school students the right to form on-campus extracurricular religious and other clubs. Recently, a Gay-Straight Alliance Club at a southern California high school was granted court protection under this statute, despite the community's objections.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Clubs, Conservatism, Extracurricular Activities