Guidelines for Groups/Clubs Under its Protection
- Host school is secondary and receives financial assistance
- Already have a limited open forum, which means that at least one student-led, non-curriculum club that meets outside of class time
- Attendance is voluntary
- Group is student-initiated
- Group is not sponsored solely by the school, teachers and/or faculty, school employees, or the government.
- Group is not disruptive
- Persons of the community that are not students may not "direct, conduct, control, or regularly attend meetings"
U.S. Education Legislation
- Bilingual Education Act
- Department of Education Organization Act
- Early Child Education Act
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
- Equal Access Act
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Higher Education Act of 1965
- Improving America's Schools Act
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- National Defense Education Act
- No Child Left Behind Act
- Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act (IX)
- Reading First






