A mixed bag from Bush. (White House).The education reform bill that was expected to be signed into law by President Bush in January turns out to be a mixed bag as far as gay activists are concerned. It includes provisions to reauthorize education programs aimed at reducing hate crimes and to allow gay youth to seek school-provided physical and mental health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract without parental notification. But it also withholds federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve for schools that deny access to the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training because of the group's antigay membership and hiring policies. "The Boy Scout provision has no place in an education bill," said Jim Anderson, communications director for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. "It confuses an already confusing situation--between equal access, which the courts have already determined the Scouts should have, and school sponsorship of the Scouts, which makes schools complicit com·plic·it adj. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. in perpetrating the Scouts' discrimination." |
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