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The Girl Scouts did not immediately offer comment on the Boy Scouts' name change. WHEN IS THE NEW NAME OFFICIAL? The Boy Scouts of America won’t officially become Scouting America until Feb. 8 ...
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scouting America in an effort to emphasize inclusion as it works to move ...
Boy Scouts of America uniform. After 115 years of being called the Boy Scouts of America, or just Boy Scouts, the well-known organization will officially change its name.. The BSA announced the ...
With that settlement in 2022, the Girl Scouts said both organizations were “looking forward to focusing on their respective missions,” while the Boy Scouts said the agreement would bring “a new period of cooperation” between the organizations. The Girl Scouts did not immediately offer comment on the Boy Scouts' name change.
The organization retained the name Boy Scouts of America as its legal name, but planned to use the new name on literature, billboards, insignia, business cards and stationery and for most other promotional material. [1] They quietly abandoned this effort by 1980 and the printing of the ninth edition of the Boy Scout Handbook. [4]
2018 name change: Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts over its effort to rebrand itself as 'the Scouts' Sara White, 10, center, participates in a game of Peru as a team building exercise during a troop ...
In 2019, the Boy Scouts of America renamed its flagship program, Boy Scouts, to Scouts BSA to reflect its policy change allowing girls to join separate, gender-specific troops. [3] In 2023, BSA agreed to pay $2.46 billion to settle claims by some 82,000 former Boy Scouts who said they had been sexually abused by BSA officials and volunteers.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit those who are not willing to subscribe to the BSA's Declaration of Religious Principle, which has been interpreted by some as banning atheists, [1] and, until January 2014, prohibited all "known or avowed homosexuals", from membership in its Scouting program. [2]