Rule Interprets Law on Boy Scouts’ Access to Schools

The Department of Education has issued final rules underscoring that school districts must accommodate the Boy Scouts of America and certain other youth groups that ask to use schools for meetings and recruitment.

Schools risk loss of their federal education aid if they do not comply with the requirement included in the No Child Left Behind Act.

Congress added the provision, which was opposed by some national education and civil liberties groups, in the controversy that flared after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 upheld the right of the Boy Scouts to exclude...