20 U.S.C. § 4072
Section 4072 · Definitions
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 258 F. Supp. 2d 667 - Boyd County High School Gay Straight Alliance v. Board of Education (2003)
Most recently applied in Carver Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance v. School Board of Lake County (April 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this subchapter—
(1) The term “secondary school” means a public school which provides secondary education as determined by State law.
(2) The term “sponsorship” includes the act of promoting, leading, or participating in a meeting. The assignment of a teacher, administrator, or other school employee to a meeting for custodial purposes does not constitute sponsorship of the meeting.
(3) The term “meeting” includes those activities of student groups which are permitted under a school's limited open forum and are not directly related to the school curriculum.
(4) The term “noninstructional time” means time set aside by the school before actual classroom instruction begins or after actual classroom instruction ends.