NYSUT Vice-President's Office, Maria Neira Files., 1987-2008
Collection Number: 6174/016
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
NYSUT Vice-President's Office Maria Neira Files, 1987-2008
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6174/016
Abstract:
As vice president of New York State United Teachers, Maria Neira oversees the union's
initiatives on educational policy and is NYSUT's frontline advocate to the New York
State Board of Regents and the State Education Department. At her direction, the NYSUT
Education & Learning Trust, the union's professional development arm, has strengthened
and expanded educational opportunities for teachers and other school staff. Neira
was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's Advisory Commission on
Educational Excellence for Hispanics. She also serves on the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Institute Advisory Council. She is a member of the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards and the founding publisher of Educator's Voice. An AFT vice president,
she also serves as a vice president of the New York State AFL-CIO Executive Council
and as a member of the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO's Workforce Development Institute.
She is a member of the New York State Workforce Investment Board, the Greater Capital
Region United Way Board of Directors, Capital District's 100 Hispanic Women, the Labor
Council for Latin American Advancement and the National Association of Latino Elected
Officials Education Fund. She directs NYSUT's fundraising as a statewide flagship
sponsor for American Cancer Society programs, including the Making Strides Against
Breast Cancer annual walks in which union volunteers have raised millions for the
cause. She has served on many state committees, including the governor's Children's
Cabinet Advisory Board and the State Committee of Practitioners, and is a member of
several other professional organizations. Neira is a recipient of the Ellis Island
Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, the Educational
Leadership Award of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade and the YMCA Northeast New
York Woman of Achievement Award. She has been honored by the United Federation of
Teachers Hispanic Affairs Committee, the Hispanic Latino Cultural Center, Long Island
Latino Teachers Association, the Schenectady Hispanic Heritage Committee and the Girl
Scouts of Northeastern New York. She previously served as assistant to the president
on education issues for the United Federation of Teachers, NYSUT's affiliate in New
York City public schools, where she directed a wide range of education initiatives
and helped develop strategic plans for education reform. She also served as director
of the UFT's Special Educator Support Program. Neira began her teaching career in
New York City in 1977 and was a fourth-grade bilingual teacher at the Bilingual Bicultural
Mini School in Manhattan. Neira holds a B.A. and an M.S. from Hunter College of the
City University of New York.
Creator:
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)
Neira, Maria
Quanitities:
7 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) was created in 1972 by the merger of the New
York State Teachers Association (NYSTA) and the United Teachers of New York (UTNY).
NYSTA had been affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), and UTNY
with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). UTNY was the statewide organization
whose United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, was the predominant
teachers' union in New York City. In joining with United Teachers and affiliating
with the AFT, NYSUT also became a member union of the AFL-CIO.
In 1976, NYSUT voted to disaffiliate with the NEA. Some locals left NYSUT and created
the NYEA (New York Educators Association), which became the state affiliate for the
NEA. In the early 1980s, NYEA changed its name to NEA-NY.
NYEA/NEA- NY viewed association with the AFL-CIO's industrial unions as undermining
the professional image and independence of teachers. The two organizations also differed
strongly on aspects of the governance structure, particularly with respect to ethnic
minority representation, with NYSUT opposed to mandatory minimums. The rivalry between
NYSUT and NYEA/NEA-NY in organizing new locals expended a great deal of resources
for both labor organizations.
While competition with NYEA/NEA-NY was a constant focus of NYSUT's organizing efforts
for teachers, NYSUT was also organizing college faculty members, nurses, and other
non-teaching personnel. Once members were organized, NYSUT continued to advocate for
teachers' and other workers' rights through contract support and legal services at
the local level and political involvement at the state and federal levels, supporting
candidates and legislation that protected funding, due process, and working conditions.
NEA-N Y merged with NYSUT in 2006, by which time NYSUT had grown to more than half
a million members, becoming the largest union in New York State.
As vice president of New York State United Teachers, Maria Neira oversees the union's
initiatives on educational policy and is NYSUT's frontline advocate to the New York
State Board of Regents and the State Education Department. At her direction, the NYSUT
Education & Learning Trust, the union's professional development arm, has strengthened
and expanded educational opportunities for teachers and other school staff.
Neira was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's Advisory Commission
on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. She also serves on the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Institute Advisory Council. She is a member of the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards and the founding publisher of Educator's Voice.
An AFT vice president, she also serves as a vice president of the New York State
AFL-CIO Executive Council and as a member of the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO's
Workforce Development Institute. She is a member of the New York State Workforce Investment
Board, the Greater Capital Region United Way Board of Directors, Capital District's
100 Hispanic Women, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the National
Association of Latino Elected Officials Education Fund. She directs NYSUT's fundraising
as a statewide flagship sponsor for American Cancer Society programs, including the
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer annual walks in which union volunteers have raised
millions for the cause. She has served on many state committees, including the governor's
Children's Cabinet Advisory Board and the State Committee of Practitioners, and is
a member of several other professional organizations.
Neira is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic
Coalition of Organizations, the Educational Leadership Award of the National Puerto
Rican Day Parade and the YMCA Northeast New York Woman of Achievement Award. She has
been honored by the United Federation of Teachers Hispanic Affairs Committee, the
Hispanic Latino Cultural Center, Long Island Latino Teachers Association, the Schenectady
Hispanic Heritage Committee and the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York.
Neira previously served as assistant to the president on education issues for the
United Federation of Teachers, NYSUT's affiliate in New York City public schools,
where she directed a wide range of education initiatives and helped develop strategic
plans for education reform. She also served as director of the UFT's Special Educator
Support Program. Neira began her teaching career in New York City in 1977 and was
a fourth-grade bilingual teacher at the Bilingual Bicultural Mini School in Manhattan.
Neira holds a B.A. and an M.S. from Hunter College of the City University of New
York.
The Vice President's Office directs NYSUT's initiatives on educational policy and
is its frontline advocate to the New York State Board of Regents and the State Education
Department.
The Vice President's Office oversees the Division of Research and Educational Services,
created in 1974, and the Education and Learning Trust (called the Effective Teaching
Program until 2005), NYSUT's professional development arm.
Maria Neira was elected First Vice President in 2005 after serving as Second Vice
President for six months; she succeeded Antonia Cortese, who had been First Vice President
since 1985 after serving as Second Vice President since 1973. Cortese left NYSUT in
2004 to become executive vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Maria Neira also serves as a vice president of the AFT.
In 2007, the titles First Vice President and Second Vice President were changed simply
to Vice President, with the duties of each carried over to the officers who held the
former respective positions. Maria Neira remains the director of the divisions and
programs traditionally under the first vice president's purview, and also coordinates
NYSUT's fundraising activities for the American Cancer Society.
Vice President Kathleen Donahue, elected second vice president in 2005, oversees
Program Services, which addresses the needs of NYSUT's health care professionals,
members of small and rural locals, new members and retirees. It also provides training
in workplace health and safety issues.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
NYSUT Vice-President's Office, Maria Neira Files. #6174/016. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6174/001: NYSUT President's Office Files. 6174/002: NYSUT Vice-President's Office Files. 6174/017: NYSUT General Officers Records 6174/017 AV: NYSUT General Officers Audio-Visual Materials 6174/017 P: NYSUT General Officers Photographs 6174/018: NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services, Maria Neira Files. All other 6174 collections
Names:
Neira, M. (Maria)
New York State United Teachers
Subjects:
Teachers' unions -- New York (State)
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Academic Bill of Rights Talking Points
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo to Maria Neira with bullet points re movement by the political right across the
country to enact state and federal laws threatening academic freedom of faculty under
guise of student free speech, replacing peer review with potentially politically driven
government review of institutional accreditation; list of states with pending legislation;
samples of proposed legislation in Florida state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives;
resolution and position paper by American Federation of Teachers (AFT), "Opposition
to Outside Control Over Academic Decision Making Under the Banner of Intellectual
Diversity," and "House Higher Ed Bill Is a Step Backward, Says AFT," noting some remedies
to alleged liberal bias would require hiring of Republicans to faculties; How a Bill
Becomes a Law in New York State
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Administrative Committee (formerly Managers) 12/14/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Tickler questions for facilitators re closing the achievement gap; memos re meeting;
issue of NEA Advocate, December-January 2005-2006
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Administrative Committee 12/07/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Meeting notice
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Administrative Committee 9/21/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; communications checklist for managers; memo re release time for volunteers
for post-Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, September 20; NYSUT constitution with redline
changes in anticipation of merger with NEA; handwritten notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Administrative Committee re LM-30 Form
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Confidential attorney-client memos re filing of required Department of Labor Form
LM-30, March-June; instructions for filing; form; related correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Administrative Committee PAC Lists
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Cover memo to Administrative Committee re Political Action Committee binder updates;
memo to PAC coordinators, March 14, 2005; list of duties and responsibilities of PAC
members, revised 1/30/03; Local Presidents List by Senate District; list of Retiree
Council presidents; list of Committee of 100 by Senate District; lists of members
of NYS Senate and Assembly; list of NYSUT Board of Directors; list of labor relations
specialists assigned to locals
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Administrative Committee 3/29/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda for NYSUT/BOCES District Superintendent Committee, March 22, 2005; memo from
vice president Maria Neira alerting K-12 local presidents of Regents proposal to raise
passing grade for Regents exams to 65, NYSUT's "serious concerns" about it, March
28, 2005; related position papers
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Advanced Placement (AP)
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter to the editor from NYSUT vice president Maria Neira in Albany Times-Union,
"Don't Overlook Minority Success in AP Courses," February 2, 2005; 2004 AP Overview
Report in New York City schools by ethnic breakdown and by gender, overall and by
subject
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Fact sheets re colorectal cancer and wrist band campaign; memos re NYSUT purchase
of bands
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
American Cancer Society Gala of Hope 3/11/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Flyer, journal tribute rate sheet, and honorary committee commitment form for Gala
of Hope event, with cover memo to NYSUT president Tom Hobart from ACS executive vice
president, requesting full-page ad, February 15, 2005
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk 08/2/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Fact sheet re walk; suggestions for activities for team coordinators; text of remarks
at kickoff breakfast; printed invitation to 2005 NYSUT Kickoff Breakfast; memos
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Contract
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence re NYSUT sponsorship of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk;
list of number of NYSUT walkers and donations raised at each event location in 2004;
list of breakfast dates and locations in October 2005; 2004 NYSUT/ACS Making Strides
Against Breast Cancer letter of agreement; letter from vice president Maria Neira
to NYSUT officers requesting authorization of payment for previous year's contract
commitment, noting ACS had not billed for it, May 12, 2005; letter from American Cancer
Society executive vice president, thanking Neira for checks for 2004 and 2005 sponsorship,
June 15, 2005
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
American Cancer Society STARS
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2004-2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence re School Teams Achieving Results Successfully (STARS) recognition
program; press release from Statewide Center for Healthy Schools re first annual awards
ceremony, sponsored by NYSUT, October 1, 2004; program for First Bi-Annual New York
Healthy STARS Awards Ceremony, September 30, 2005; brochures and related materials
for 24/7 Let's Go! Healthy Lifestyle Program, by NYSUT
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AFL-CIO see under NYS AFL-CIO
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
AFT Collier Support Personnel Hearing
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2004-2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Statement of Facts submitted by Florida Education Association re investigative proceeding
re failure to transmit per capita dues by Collier Support Personnel, AFT Local 7412,
January 4, 2006; FEA Governance Documents: Constitution, Bylaws & Transition Agreement
as amended May 2004; correspondence; handwritten notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
AFT Executive Council 7/6/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
AFT Executive Council Unionism and Democracy Seminar
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letters to AFT vice president Maria Neira from executive director of Albert Shanker
Institute re seminar, "Unionism & Democracy: The Experience, the Legacy, the Future,"
scheduled for April 20-21; related correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
AFT Executive Council Conference Call 09/1/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memos re conference call; ballot, memo re federal court decision, and related materials
re rescission of decision to create an administratorship for Federacion de Maestros
de Puerto Rico and revoke charter for nonpayment of per capita dues
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
AFT Healthcare May 2-3, 2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re Leadership Development Conference for school nurse members of AFT locals,
January 25, with attached information sheet
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
AFT Job Training Improvement Act
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter from AFT to House Education and Workforce Committee, opposing the Job Training
Improvement Act of 2005, asserting that it would undermine the Workforce Investment
Act, divert scarce job training resources from unemployed individuals and eliminate
dislocated worker programs, February 16, 2005
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
AFT Latino Caucus 6/16/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
"Solidaridad!" AFT Latino Caucus New York Chapter 1st Annual Scholarship Dinner Dance
Program, June 16, 2005; invitation; correspondence re ad purchase
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
AFT LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) 6/30/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed program for 76th LULAC National Convention, "Emerging Latino Communities:
Strengthening America," June 27-July 2, 2005; presentation transparencies and disk
for session on No Child Left Behind, "Education Policy Today: A Report Card on Latinos";
flyers re No Child Left Behind; AFT policy brief, "NCLB: Its Problems, Its Promise,"
July 2004; English and Spanish versions of brochure, "Pathways to Success: An AFT
Guide for Parents"
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
AFT NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials) June 23-25,
2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence re NALEO 22nd Annual Conference; presentation transparencies and disk
re No Child Left Behind; AFT policy brief, "NCLB: Its Problems, Its Promise," July
2004
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
AFT NEAFT Partnership Joint Council
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Joint communiqu about seventh meeting, held on March 17
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
AFT No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Task Force 9/28/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter from Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to the state legislature with attached
Act to Reform Education, September 22, 2005; policy brief by National Center for Research
on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing: "Fixing the NCLB Accountability System,"
summer 2005; memo from NYSUT executive vice president Toni Cortese re materials for
NCLB Task Force meeting, including outline of questions to be discussed, September
21, 2005; spreadsheet, NCLB Continues to Challenge Schools in 2005, listing Adequate
Yearly Progress (AYP) status by state, percent of schools needing improvement, percent
of students who scored at or above proficient on state tests, and other measures compared
with 2004; description of the No Child Left Behind Reform Act (S. 724) by Sen. Christopher
Dodd; description of the No Child Left Behind Improvement Act; article by Stateline.org,
"Higher Bar Tripping Schools," August 12; list of proposals to amend NCLB's AYP formula;
explanations of selected proposals to fix AYP; related memos. See also No Child Left Behind
; see also Committee of Practitioners
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
AFT NCLB Task Force Meeting 5/3/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; background materials, including Center on Education Policy report, articles
re tutoring, restructuring from Education Week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
National Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune; article by AFT president
Edward McElroy, "NCLB's Unintended Consequences," in American Teacher, May/June 2005;
AFT list of NCLB restructuring strategies; AFT booklet, "Redesigning Low- Performing
Schools: It's Union Work," 2001
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
AFT NCLB Action Agenda 2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Bound "AFT Action Agenda for the No Child Left Behind Act, prepared for AFT Pre-K-
12 Local Presidents," March 2005; press release, "NCLB Let's Get it Right: Union Announces
National Campaign to Educate Public and Elected Leaders on Improving the No Child
Left Behind Law," May 19, 2005
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
AFT NCLB Task Force 2/24/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; minutes of NYSUT Task Force on Value-Added Accountability/Assessment, February
9, 2005; copy of Time cover story, "What Teachers Hate about Parents," February 21,
2005; newsletter, Title I Report: Compensatory Education's Comprehensive News Source,
January 2005; Federal Funds Information to States VIP Series lists of grants to states,
February 2005; list of funding shortfalls by state, from Office of the Democratic
House Leader, "Republicans Break Their Promise on Education Funding," September 9,
2004
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
AFT Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel Conference March 31 - April 3,
2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Tentative 28th annual PSRP conference schedule: "Moving the Union On"
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
AFT Teachers Program and Policy Council Meeting 5/19-20/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; chair's report; related meeting materials re charter schools, secondary school
reform, English Language Learners; AFT press release re No Child Left Behind. See
also (NYSUT) Policy Council
.
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
AFT Teachers Program and Policy Council Meeting 10/20-21/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; chair's report; related meeting materials; AFT draft resolution on English
Language Learners, October 4, 2005; draft resolution on elevating the practitioner
voice in secondary school reform; list of members of AFT Program & Policy Council,
2005-2006; letter to Rep. John Boehner, chair of Committee on Education and the Workforce,
from AFT president Edward McElroy, opposing Family Education Reimbursement Accounts,
asserting that it would divert needed funds away from victims of Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita, October 19, 2005, with attached AFT Proposal under the Provisions of No
Child Left Behind to Aid Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina; documents, Standards
for Responsible and Responsive Teacher Unions; minutes of AFT Teachers Program & Policy
Council, May 19-20, 2005; CD-ROM, Welcome to Teaching from the AFT; NYSUT Policy Council
notes for the October meeting
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
AFT State Federation Presidents Conference November 16-19, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Tentative agenda; program; text of Columbia State Federation case; memos re travel
arrangements
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
AFT Video 7/22/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re filming of AFT video to include NYSUT officers' overseas visit
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Auditor see Zimmerman
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Bargaining Units Retreat Planning Committee
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda for November 14, 2005, meeting; handouts for NYSUT Manager's Retreat, June
7-8; correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
NYSUT Benefit Trust Meeting 9/13/03
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2003 |
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Scope and Contents
Minutes of June 29, 2003, meeting; notification of September 13 meeting
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
NYSUT Benefits Conference November 5-6, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Conference program
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Board of Directors Reception Dinner and Meeting December 9-10, 2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Tentative meeting agenda; memo to NYSUT Board of Directors from president Dick Ianuzzi
re constitution update to accommodate unification with NEA, November 4, 2005; redline
edits to constitution; memo with text of Randi Weingarten statement re UFT contract
ratification, November 7, 2005; memo to local president from Ianuzzi re training available
for public relations campaigns to support school budgets, November 2; NYSUT Solidarity
Fund application form; evaluation form for NYSUT Board of Directors retreat of September
16-18, 2005; report of executive vice president Alan Lubin re election results and
plans for 2006, November 29; report of second vice president Kathleen Donahue; Report
of NYSUT Task Force on Retiree Services, 2002; report of secretary-treasurer Ivan
Tiger; NYSUT balance sheet as of August 31, 2005; NYSUT membership comparison as of
October 31, 2005, vs fiscal year end 2005 (August 31, 2005); consolidated financial
statements for years ended August 31, 2005 and 2004; NYSUT Benefit Trust Summary of
Material Modifications and Notice to Participants, May 2005; related financial documents;
social services report; field and legal report; organizing report
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Board of Directors Retreat Planning Committee 7/12/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
List of retreat committee members; memo re planning committee meeting
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Board of Directors Meeting 6/27/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo; outline of oral report of first vice president Maria Neira
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Board of Directors New Board Orientation 5/23/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Program; report of first vice president Maria Neira; list of attendees; list of Board
of Regents, with summary of powers and duties; NYSUT booklet, Education and Learning
Trust: Your Professional Development Source: Summer 2005 Course Catalog; NYSUT booklet,
School Related Professionals: Professional Development Program; NYSUT Briefing Bulletin,
May 2005, "83.5% of School Budgets Passed," with list of school districts whose budgets
were defeated; NYSUT Information Bulletin re role of the mentor in district-based
mentoring programs
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Board of Directors Meeting January 28-29, 2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Outline of oral report of first vice president Maria Neira; dues proposal; handwritten
notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Board of Directors Officers and Associates Meeting 1/25/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda for Executive Committee meeting of January 28; agenda for Board of
Directors' meeting of January 28-29; notes from Officers' meeting of January 4, 2005;
list of management/confidential salary adjustments for FY 2004/2005, per May 11, 2004,
Officers' meeting; working 2004-05 salary schedule; 2005 Constituency Awards nominees;
balance sheet for Retiree Funds for fiscal years ended 8/31/01 8/31/04; organizing
flyers for Associate Member for Higher Education program; memo from NYSUT Office of
Special Counsel re draft revised NYSUT policy prohibiting sexual harassment, January
25; benefit plan comparison chart; revised dues and revenue projection; 2005 constitutional
changes, with marked-up copy; proposed 2005 Representative Assembly Resolutions Committee
chairs and vice chairs; memo re upcoming AFT conferences re SRP (School Related Professionals),
special conference re civil human rights, women's rights, higher education, January
25. See also Officers' and Associates meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Board of Directors Meeting December 10-11, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re tentative meeting agenda; minutes of Board of Directors meetings of September
10-11, 2004, and October 31, 2004; president's report; report of first vice president
Richard Ianuzzi; report of executive director, Field & Legal Services; list of requests
for affiliation; post-election summary from executive vice president Alan Lubin; newsletter
of New York State Labor-Religion Coalition re sweatshops; report, Future of NYSUT's
Retiree Program; NYSUT Managerial Positions, for approval by NYSUT Executive Committee
and Board of Directors, December 10-11, 2004; NYSUT Building Corporation membership
meeting agenda, December 11, 2004; document, Implementation of Actions by the 2004
Representative Assembly, March 25-27, 2004; 2005 Representative Assembly action items
for Board approval; spring 2005 course catalog, Education and Learning Trust; disks
marked BOD Power Point
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Board of Directors Retreat October 28-31, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re plans for retreat; proposed schedule (agenda); list of social/recreational
events; evaluation summary of Board of Directors' retreat, November 11; summary reports
of items discussed; materials re Regents middle-level policy
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Board of Directors Meeting September 10-11, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda for Executive Committee meeting; president's report; vice president's
report; report of first vice president Toni Cortese; report of executive director,
Field & Legal Services; report of the secretary-treasurer; report of the Task Force
on Small and Rural Locals: One Tree Many Branches; requests for affiliation; legislative
update; State Education Department Resolution in Recognition of Distinguished Service
for Toni Cortese; journal, International Project of the New York State Labor-Religion
Coalition; minutes of Board of Directors meeting of August 4, 2004
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Board of Directors Meeting 8/4/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; minutes of June 28, 2004, meeting; materials re 2004 Presidents' Conference
on Endorsements; list of members of Political Action Committee; conference agenda;
glossy printed flyers by NYSUT re Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on
mandatory overtime, access to higher education
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Board of Directors Meeting January 23-24, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Outline of report of first vice president; Regents' Report Card; memo re expiration
of the term of office of members of the Board of Regents, January 7, 2004; handwritten
notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 05/16/06
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2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 4/4/06
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2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 12/13/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; county by county impact of alternative state aid scenarios for 2006-07
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| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 11/15/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of meeting dates
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| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 5/24/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
BOCES District Superintendent Committee 11/16/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
BOCES Leadership Conference September 29-October 1, 2006
|
2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed program for 34th annual conference; related materials
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| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
BOCES Leadership Conference 10/21/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Registration materials; request for speaker
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
BOCES Conference October 22-23, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
BOCES issues/comments
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| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
BOCES Lobby Day 2004-2005
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Brief memos
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| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
BOCES Merger Studies
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence re possible merger of Monroe 1 BOCES with Monroe 2 BOCES, August
|
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Buchbinder Tunick & Co see Zimmerman
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Budget NYSUT Proposed Budget
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2005-2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Executive Committee presentation of draft NYSUT 2005-06 Budget, with cover letter
from secretary-treasurer Ivan Tiger, June 2, 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Budget Management Planning Committee 5/11/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo to NYSUT officers and associates re management/confidential compensation analysis,
May 16, 2005; confidential Dick Ianuzzi's Officers' Retreat notes, April 26-27, 2005;
outline of officers' meeting, May 3, 2005; program of the 2005 NYSUT Leadership Institute
at Cornell University, August 5; 2005 committee nominations; testimony of Antonia
Cortese, First Vice President, New York State United Teachers to the Senate and Assembly
Standing Committees on Education on the Regents Learning Standards and High School
Graduation Requirements, October 22, 2003
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Budget State Budget
|
2004-2005 |
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Scope and Contents
2005-06 Budget Analysis: Review of Enacted Budget, from the Office of the State Comptroller,
Alan G. Hevesi, May 17, 2005; review of the 2004-05 Legislative Budget Agreement,
New York State Division the Budget, George E. Pataki, Governor, August 20, 2004; memo
from AFT legislative associate re passage of 2006 congressional budget, noting tax
cuts and cuts to education, Medicaid, job training, and other domestic programs, failure
of several AFT-supported amendments, links to individual legislators' votes, April
29, 2005
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Business Council of New York State, Inc. Education and Business Expo
|
1989-2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed brochure, "Engage New York: A Call to Engage Business in Promoting Education
Excellence," by the Business Council; charts correlating reading scores, 4th grade
English Language Arts, and funding; program for event at Southern Saratoga County
Chamber, featuring Commissioner of Education Richard Mills; press release re Education
and Business Expo for October 1, 2004; 1990 Business/Labor Education Symposium agenda;
Business Council and NYS AFL-CIO working paper for symposium, "Schools for the Future";
brochure, "Viewpoints: Raising Our Sights in Education," remarks of R. Quintus Anderson,
chairman, The Aarque Companies, before the NYS Board of Regents, published by Public
Policy Institute, February 1990; The Anderson Committee Report: Report of the Statewide
Steering Committee on Preparation for Employment and/or Postsecondary Education, by
R. Quintus Anderson, chairman, submitted to the NYS Board of Regents, January 16,
1990; position paper, "What the Business Council of New York State, Inc., Thinks about
Public School Choice," October 1989
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Business Council of New York State, Inc. Dan Walsh 10/19/99
|
1999 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between NYSUT president Tom Hobart and Dan Walsh, Business Council
of New York State, Inc., re meeting to discuss proposal that NYSUT, AFT, and Business
Council develop model for validating teaching practices, December 1996-January, 1997;
related correspondence with Marge Mayo, Al Shanker; special report, "Measuring Up
in Our Schools: Improving Assessment and Accountability," by the Public Policy Institute,
December 1988, with cover letter from Walsh (as president of institute) to Hobart;
related press release; newspaper clippings
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Business Council of New York State, Inc. Mayo 1997-1998
|
1997-1998 |
|
Scope and Contents
Advance copy of Public Policy Institute report, "Separate and Unequal: The Reading
Gap in New York Elementary Schools," with cover letter from the corporate secretary
of the Business Council, noting that Marge (Margarita) Mayo, Business Council director
of quality, education and training, had suggested sending it to NYSUT first vice president
Antonia Cortese, February 18, 1998; letters from Cortese commenting on report; cover
letter from Mayo to Cortese with article from The Economist, April 3, 1997; article,
"Don't Read, Don't Tell: Clinton's Phony War on Illiteracy," citing high cost and
high failure rate of Reading Recovery program, by Robert W. Sweet, Jr., with note
from Mayo to Cortese, March 2, 1997; paper evaluating cost and effectiveness of Reading
Recovery program, January 1, 1997; draft NYSUT Reading Resolution for 1998 Representative
Assembly, supporting early phonics instruction, February 20, 1998; draft resolution
on BOCES, February 20, 1998; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Business Councils Education Task Force 1/18/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Linda Sanford (IBM executive and chair of the Business Council Education Task Force)
comments to the New York State Board of Regents, 9/10/ 04; letter from Sanford to
Maria Neira, requesting a meeting
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Cabinet Meeting 12/13/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes from October 25 Cabinet meeting; organizational chart of NYSUT departments;
list of future organizing opportunities; Bicentennial Commission Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Strategic Plan executive summary; letter to UFT president Randi Weingarten from Republican
Assembly member Vincent Ignizio, soliciting support for elimination of sales tax on
books ("reading tax"), November 14
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Cabinet Meeting 10/25/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes from September 27 Cabinet meeting; annual report of the general counsel
to the executive director and officers for the 2004-2005 administrative year; 2004-05
Organizing Report; evaluation form, NYSUT Board of Directors' Retreat, September 16-18,
2005; letter from NYSUT president Richard Ianuzzi to Gerald Reynolds, chair, U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, expressing deep concern over remarks Reynolds made re
Albany City School District, noting diversion of millions of dollars in funds from
public education by unproven charter schools, lack of federal funding for No Child
Left Behind mandates, September 28; background paper, "Current Increases in Energy
Costs Present a Serious Problem for School Districts Operating Under a Contingency
Budget, and an Opportunity to Change the Rules," with recommended resolution urging
the addition of energy costs to expenditures exempt from contingency budget spending
caps
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Cabinet Meeting 9/27/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes from September 13 and June 22 Cabinet meeting; organizational chart
of NYSUT departments; memo re Republican Mainstream Coalition, a group of Republicans
with moderate views, and its 501(c)3 not-for-profit research arm, the Center for Economic
and Environmental Partnership (CEEP), recommending a $2000 contribution from NYSUT
for its operating budget, September 26; materials re Higher Education Database Project;
memo re retirement consultants
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Cabinet Meeting 9/13/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; flyer, "No Child Left Behind," showing images of children from Hurricane Katrina,
photos of President Bush and advisors, with timeline of White House response to event;
resolutions due to expire in 2006; memo re retiree health insurance for management
and confidential staff who were not grandfathered into enhanced benefits, July 21,
2005; production chart for ads and editorial support, online communications
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Cabinet Meeting 5/25/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes of Officers and Associates' meeting of April 12, 2005; memo re PSC support;
memo from director of human resources, recommending that mandatory post-hiring medical
exams on new hires be continued despite learning of no cost savings on insurance rates,
May 16, 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Cambridge International Career Awards 5/1/00
|
2000 |
|
Scope and Contents
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate Home Economic Examinations syllabus
for 2001; materials re Cambridge Career Award for Information and Telecommunications
Technology; Cambridge International Examinations meeting agenda, May 1, 2000
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Campaign for Youth
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter to President George W. Bush ("Memo to the White House on Reconnecting Our Youth")
with attached recommendations endorsed by over listed 200 organizations for disadvantaged
youth, January 27, 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Capital Area Labor of Love 5/23/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation; program for tribute dinner "honoring our government, business, labor,
and community partners for their leadership, vision, commitment" to benefit the Capital
Area Boys & Girls Clubs. See also Two Together
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Capital District Labor Parade Committee Tribute Reception 12/16/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation; memos
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Capital District Labor Parade 10/2/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to NYSUT staff re Capital District parade
|
|||
|
Capital District Regional Office see Regional Offices
|
|||
|
Celebration of Learning see Widmeyer Communications
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Charter Schools Q and A 11/22/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Fact sheet (questions and answers) about charter schools with cover note from UFT
to NYSUT vice president Maria Neira, received November 22, 2004
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Charter Schools Articles, Reports
|
1996-2002 |
|
Scope and Contents
AFT report, "Charter School Laws: Do They Measure Up?" 1996; U.S Department of Education
National Study of Charter Schools, "The State of the Charter Schools: Third-Year Report,"
May 1999; AFT Educational Issues Policy Brief, "Charter Schools Update," June 1999;
AFT Charter School Study, "Do Charter Schools Measure Up? The Charter School Experiment
after Ten Years," May 14-15, 2002; downloaded articles from Education Week, Education
Daily, New York Times, Albany Times-Union, other publications; Hart opinion survey
of charter school teachers, 1998; NYSUT Policy on Charter Schools, approved by Board
of Directors 3/12/99; Charter Schools Institute, State University of New York, press
release announcing 90 applications to open new schools in 40 communities, with attached
list, October 25, 1999; materials from the Michigan Prospect for Renewed Citizenship,
including three papers, "Are Charter Schools Accountable?' "Evaluating Charter Schools:
Questions We Should Ask and Why" and "Test Scores: Charter School Students Compared
to Those in Neighborhood Public Schools"
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Charter Schools For-Profit Industry
|
1999-2000 |
|
Scope and Contents
Profiles of for-profit charter school companies, with cover narrative, "The Changing
Face of Charter Schools: Overview of the For-Profit Charter School Industry," 1999";
materials of State Education Department Board of Regents meetings, including announcement
re Status of Schools under Registration Review (SURR), January 7, 2000, amendment
to Commissioner's Regulations re charter school, June 29, 1999, and approvals of charter
school applications, March 15, 2001; NYSUT memo re update on charter school approvals,
May 26, 2000; fiscal implications of New York charter schools
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Choice (School Choice)
|
1989-1996 |
|
Scope and Contents
AFT report, "Myths and Facts about Private School Choice," fall 1993, with cover memo
to AFT Executive Council; AFT research report, "Public School Teachers & Their Private
School Choices: Getting the Facts Straight," April 1996; draft special report by Carnegie
Foundation, "School Choice," 1992; School Choice Proceedings: The Fourteenth Conference
of the University/Urban Schools National Task Force, CUNY, October 29-30, 1992; correspondence
re regional strategy meeting on choice, 1989; AFT legislative alert, November 21,
1991
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Meeting 12/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
CLUW National Officers Council meeting agenda, December 6, 2006; Labor Coalition for
Community Action Mission Statement; list of duties of national CLUW officers; state
assignments of CLUW National Officers Council as of December 2005; list of standing
committee co-chairs; 13th biennial CLUW convention program, amended constitution,
and adopted resolutions, including "The Disgrace of Hurricane Katrina," condemning
federal response, calling for increase in minimum wage, "Stop Pension Piracy," re
airline industry attempt to default on pension obligations, "Opposition to Roberts
Nomination for Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court," "Wake Up Wal-Mart," "Healthcare
Coverage for All," others
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Conf. Call 12/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; convention resolutions; event information grid
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) International Human Rights Day 12/10/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Restoring every worker's right to a Voice @ Work: Toolkit for Day of Action to Restore
Workers' Freedom to Form Unions and Bargain Collectively (AFL-CIO); agenda, resolutions,
and related material from CLUW National Officers Council meeting, 12/6; health-related
flyers (cervical cancer screening, HIV/AIDS)
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Correspondence
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from CLUW membership coordinator reminding NYSUT vice president Maria Neira that
as national vice president of CLUW, she needed to renew her national CLUW membership,
with attached membership application; newsletter, CLUW News (convention summary issue),
July-September 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 11/7/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Meeting agenda; comments from NYSUT vice president Neira on Regents Policy Statement
on Early Education for Student Achievement in a Global Community, September 29; internal
NYSUT memos re algebra exam, literacy program; materials re teacher pay incentives
in Denver, Colorado, public school system. See also Johanna Duncan-Poitier
; see also James Kadamus
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 9/20/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Tentative agenda; June 2005 Regents Surveys Overview Summary re survey of teachers
re their experience with the Regents exams; internal memos re exams; memo from Chuck
Santelli to NYSUT officers re Education Summit 2005; description of NYSUT goals for
NYS High School Reform Destination Diploma Forum of March 21-22, 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 7/11/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; materials re legal requirements for school year calendar; process for resolving
local disputes; important dates for grade 3-8 tests in 2005-06
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 5/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Tentative agenda; issues of concern for meeting with commissioner; review of preliminary
draft middle-level regulations; examination dates for 2005-06 school year; handwritten
notes
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 3/16/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Tentative and revised agenda; list of members of Commissioner's Advisory Council on
Higher Education
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 10/12/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from vice president Neira to NYSUT Board of Directors re State Education Department's
latest middle-level proposal, September 24; text of SED proposal, August 26
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 5/12/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft letter (marked confidential) from NYS Council of School Superintendents to superintendents
urging support for school finance reform, noting pending court decision in Campaign
for Fiscal Equity, May 2004; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Commissioner Mills Meeting 1/28/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; proposed resolution by NYSUT Board of Directors re middle-level education;
eligibility criteria for students with disabilities participating in the state's assessment
system; spreadsheet showing umber of public and nonpublic school students with severe
disabilities in various subject categories, 2002; bar graphs showing increases in
student achievement since 1999
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Committee of 100 March 14-15, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of NYSUT officers; NYSUT flyer, There's Still a Better Choice, re implementation
of Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision; fact sheets on teacher centers, health care,
CUNY, SUNY, SUNY Community Colleges, UFT (NYC), K-12; tentative agenda for lobbying
day
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Committee of 100 May 23-24, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Fact sheets on retirement issues, charter schools, higher education, health care,
labor, and K-12, with cover letter to the members of the NYS legislature from NYSUT
executive vice president Alan Lubin, May 24, 2005; lists of members of state Senate
and Assembly, Assembly Education Committee, Senate Finance Committee, Assembly Higher
Education Committee, Assembly Governmental Employees Committee; agenda for lobbying
day
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Pre-Meeting November
28-29, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of members; Recommendations on the Reauthorization of the No Child Left
Behind Act; No Child Left Behind: A Road Map for Implementation, from U.S. Secretary
of Education Margaret Spellings, November 10, 2005; presentation points to NYS Committee
of Practitioners re No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; fact sheets; AFT document, NCLB:
Let's Get It Right; memo to NCLB Committee of Practitioners from State Education Department
NCLB Coordinator Raymond Kespel re theme of retreat, reauthorization of NCLB, November
18; memo from deputy education commissioner James Kadamus re proposed amendment to
Commissioner's Regulations re uniform violent and disruptive incident reporting system,
October 14; handwritten notes. See also No Child Left Behind
; see also AFT No Child Left Behind
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) November 28-29, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Materials as above; memos
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 9/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for pre-meeting, September 14; agenda for NCLB Committee of Practitioners,
September 14; presentation sheets, Update on Accountability, September 2005; spreadsheet
re committee key recommendations and status; flexibility for determining AYP for students
with disabilities; Board of Regents press releases, "Five Schools Named as Persistently
Dangerous under NCLB," and "511 Schools Statewide 'In Need of Improvement' under NCLB,"
September 9; memo to school superintendents from State Education Department re testing
program for grades 3-8, July 2005
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 5/10/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for pre-meeting; brochure, New York Public Schools at a Glance: Achievement,
Enrollment, Funding, by New York State School Boards Association, 2005; draft document
by State Education Department, Supplemental Educational Services, school year 2003-2004;
lists of approved providers; School and Accountability Rules Implementing No Child
Left Behind, April 2005; presentation sheets, Update on Accountability, May 2005;
draft amendment to Commissioner's Regulations re accountability; agenda for forum
on the Destination Diploma, May 23-24, 2005; draft document, Supplemental Educational
Services (SES) Reference & Procedures, May 2005; framework for New York's NCLB Accountability
Plan
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 3/2/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Pre-meeting suggested discussion questions re testing for grades 3-8; memo to NYSUT
Board of Directors from vice president Maria Neira re summary of major issues, re
revised math standards and assessments for grades 3-8, middle-level education, December
7, 2004; letter (draft?) to Regents from Neira re accountability and test administration
and scoring, December 2, 2004; presentation sheets, "10 Years of Standards in New
York State: A Data Based Assessment of Progress Made and How Far We Need to Go," March
2, 2005; memo to school superintendents from State Education Department deputy commissioner
James Kadamus re Uniform Violent and Disruptive Incident System, January 2005; related
materials
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Committee of Practitioners (COP) No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 10/19/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo to committee from State Education Department deputy commissioner James Kadamus
re next meeting, with attached agenda; State Education Department Learning Standards
for English Language Arts, Mathematics (revisited); correspondence from committee
member Bill Roney re need for more group discussion time, request to put items on
agenda, including consideration of expanding committee membership
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 42 |
Community College Conference 11/5/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference program
|
|||
|
Ann Cook see Policy Issues Meeting
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Disney Teacher Awards
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Announcement of award recipients for Disney Teacher Awards
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Johanna Duncan-Poitier at State Education Department 6/21/05, 2007
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda, with recommendations for appointments; confidential NYSUT Personnel Committee
Principles re promotion when there is a substantial change in the nature of employee's
duties, June 16, 2005; letter to NYSUT vice president Maria Neira from Duncan-Poitier
as Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education P-16, June 4, 2007
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Johanna Duncan-Poitier 11/16/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Proposed agenda for meeting with Johanna Duncan-Poitier; letter from NYSUT vice president
Antonia Cortese to Johanna Duncan-Poitier, deputy commissioner, State Education Department,
urging consideration of appointments from segments of the higher education community
not represented on the Professional Standards and Practices Board, specifically direct
instructional faculty members from SUNY and CUNY, June 19, 2003; letter from Cortese
to Duncan-Poitier, urging the appointment of three teachers recommended by NYSUT,
July 16, 2004; draft of letter to Duncan-Poitier from NYSUT vice president Maria Neira,
urging appointment of teachers to two remaining vacancies on the board, October 22,
2004; State Professional Standards and Practices Board Membership Matrix, 9/04; list
of mentoring concerns; NYSUT's Review/Comments re SED Draft Rubric for Assessing District
Teacher Mentoring Programs 11/5/04; letter to Richard Mills, Commissioner of Education,
from co-chairs of Professional Standards and Practices Board, urging no reduction
in 50% rule for full-time faculty in teacher education programs, November 4, 2004;
letter to chancellor of the Board of Regents from the Commission on Independent Colleges
and Universities re teacher accreditation process, October 20, 2004; letter to deputy
assistant commissioner of education Duncan-Poitier from NYSUT vice president Cortese,
expressing NYSUT opposition to change in Commissioner's Regulations requiring that
a majority of teacher education courses be taught by full-time faculty, September
2, 2004; Report on the Regents Higher Education and Professional Practices Committee
Statewide Plan for Higher Education 2004-2012; Certification Concerns under the New
Requirements. See also Commissioner Mills
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Johanna Duncan-Poitier and Joe Frey 10/22/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Talking Points for the Meeting with Johanna Duncan-Poitier: Issues Raised by Professional
Standards and Practices Board Opposing the Amendments to Section 52/Full-time Faculty
Requirements; Teacher Education Program: Need for Full-Time Faculty, with handwritten
notation, "Bill Scheverman's comments"
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Early Childhood Education Committee 10/29/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda of meeting of Early Childhood Subject Area Committee; letter to Education Commissioner
Richard Mills from NYSUT vice president Maria Neira re draft Regents Policy Statement
on Early Education for Student Achievement in a Global Community, with specific comments
on policy recommendations, September 29, 2005; memo from State Education Department
re policy statement, July 7, 2005; websites of interest
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Early Childhood Education Briefing Papers 2000-2001
|
2001 |
|
Scope and Contents
Center for Early Care and Education briefing paper, "Early Care and Education for
All: Making a Commitment to Our Youngest New Yorkers," Rensselaerville Institute,
November 28-30, 2001; Early Childhood Research and Practice, vol.2, no. 2, Readiness
for School: A Survey of State Policies and Definitions, fall 2000; newsletter of Labor
Project for Working Families, Labor News for Working Families, noting paid paternity
leave time in other countries, summer 2001
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
(ED) Election District Meetings ED 1-4 Western / Southwestern NY 11/8/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira ED 1-4 At- Large Directors Meeting, Williamsville,
with handwritten edits, re testing issues for grades 3-8, early childhood proposals,
unification with NEA, November 8, 2005; Neira biographical sketch; handwritten notes;
facilitative memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Election District Meetings ED 9-10 Plattsburg 03/11/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Flyer for "Farewell to President Hobart" event; facilitative memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Election District Meetings ED 13 Mid-Hudson 09/15/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; vice president Neira's remarks to ED 13 meeting in Kingston, re No Child Left
Behind, unification with NEA; draft talking points; handwritten notes; alert memo
to PreK-12 local presidents re use of Superintendents' Conference Days for state grade
3-8 assessment rating, September 15
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Election District Meetings ED 5-6 Rochester 03/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for NYSUT ED 5-6 Local Leaders' Summit; draft remarks for NYSUT 2nd Vice President
Maria Neira, ED 5-6, with handwritten edits; text of Neira's introduction of Education
Commissioner Richard Mills; notes to Neira re attendance by Rochester Association
of Paraprofessionals member who would be recognized as School-Related Professional
of the Year; candidate statements by Theresa McSweeney and Kathleen Donahue, running
for second vice president; answers from State Education Department to questions submitted
by NYSUT re grade 3-8 testing program, February 7, 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Election District Meetings ED 15-16 Westchester 1/13/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Facilitative memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
ED 14 Newsletters Tracey Campaign 9/27/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Flyer to Election District 14 local presidents calling for help in electing Dennis
Tracey to the NYS Assembly, noting consistent vote by incumbent to block override
of Gov. Pataki line-item vetoes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
ED 13 and 14 Meeting Honoring Hobart/Ianuzzi Culinary Institute 3/17/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to St. Patrick's Day at the Culinary Institute for contiguous meeting of
ED 14 and 14
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Election District Meetings ED 13 Mid-Hudson (Carol Slotkin) 12/2/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; draft remarks for 2nd vice president Maria Neira; facilitative memos. See
also Carol Slotkin Conference Call
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Election District Meetings ED 11-12 Oneonta (Dona Vermilya) 11/5/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Final and draft versions of Maria Neira's remarks
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Election District Meetings ED 11-12 Overheads 11/5/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Presentation points re No Child Left Behind
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Election District Meetings ED 5-6 Rochester 10/7/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda for NYSUT Directors' Meeting and Local Leaders' Summit; related memo
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Election District Meetings ED 1-4 Buffalo 10/6/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; newsletter, Southwestern Regional Office Report, September 2004; NYSUT Western
Regional Calendar; October 2004 WNYPAC telephone bank volunteer schedule; memo re
ING Opportunity Plus 403(b) tax-deferred annuity, termination of relationship with
L&M Financial Services, September 28, 2004
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| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Election District Meetings ED 5-6 Rochester 3/11/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Final Title I Regulations: Alternate Assessments for Students with Significant Cognitive
Disabilities: Talking Points; overview of No Child Left Behind; State Education Department
paper, Strategy for Implementing the Regents Policy Statement on Middle-Level Education,
February 6, 2004; handwritten notes
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| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Election District Meetings ED 1-3 Amherst 2/10/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
NYSUT Information Bulletins re state assessments in English Language Arts and mathematics
for grades 3-8, State Education Department approval of alternatives to Regents exams,
district-based teacher mentoring programs, No Child Left Behind requirements for paraprofessionals,
High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE); New York State definition
of a "highly qualified" teacher; January 2004 Math A Regents Exam talking points for
Executive Committee meeting, February 12, 2004; overview of No Child Left Behind;
questions and answers re AFT endorsement of John Kerry; flyers supporting John Kerry,
opposing Medicare drug benefit
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Election District Meetings Meeting on Speeches 10/12/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re meeting on how remarks are prepared for speaking engagements
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Education and Learning Trust 12/13/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda for Board of Directors meeting; minutes of June 22 and September 27, 2005,
meetings; memo from Ro (Rosemarie) Rosen to Maria Neira and Chuck Santelli re interim
financial and enrollment report, November 2; memo from Ro Rosen to Neira and Santelli
requesting approval for online, in-service courses through Video Journal, October
17
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| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Education and Learning Trust Effective Teaching Program New Course
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Proposal to Chuck Santelli from Ro Rosen for new course under Effective Teaching Program,
June 16, 2005; course outline and syllabus, "A Framework for Teacher Leadership".
See also Effective Teaching Program
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Education and Learning Trust Ro Rosen Meeting (In-Service Course) 10/31/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo from Ro Rosen to Neira and Santelli requesting approval for online, in-service
courses through Video Journal, October 17; memo from Ro Rosen re Teachscape; memo
from Ro Rosen re database search results for contract language for "lead teacher,"
guidance for proposed course, October 14, 2005
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| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Education and Learning Trust Ro Rosen Meeting 9/30/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Brainstorming agenda; memo from Ro Rosen, with Education and Learning Trust timeline
of key events, brainstorm framework, Effective Teaching Program enrollment timeline,
1978-2005; background data for staff brainstorming session
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Education and Learning Trust Ro Rosen: Professional Development 8/25/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
List of areas for discussion, including Teacher as Leader course, need for Education
& Learning Trust to have more contact with local leaders
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Education and Learning Trust Ro Rosen Meeting 11/16/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo to Chuck Santelli from Ro Rosen re budget; 2004 new member teacher survey summary
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Education and Learning Trust Ro Rosen Meeting April 13 and 19, 2006
|
2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Memos re Record Schedule meeting, meeting re materials for Learning Trust
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Education and Learning Trust Sungard Powercampus Software Demo 01/23/06
|
2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Message requesting a meeting with Maria Neira and Chuck Santelli for software demonstration
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Educational Conference Board 12/6/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for first annual policy conference, re investment and accountability for student
success; conference program; list of attendees; letter to NYSUT vice president Maria
Neira, confirming registration; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Educational Conference Board 11/10/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Educational Conference Board 10/6/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; financial statement, October 5 and September 3, 2004; minutes of September
7 meeting; list of dues invoiced to member entities; proposed amendments to Articles
of Agreement; list of recurring and priority issues for 2004-05; Preliminary Report
of the Charter Schools Work Group, presented October 6, 2004; materials from New York
State Council of School Superintendents: 2004-05 Enacted Budget Summary, Assessing
the Assessments 2004; county-by-county impact of alternative state aid scenarios for
2005-06
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Effective Teaching Program 12/15/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Updated ELT (Education and Learning Trust) staff meeting agenda for December 15, 2004;
memos re December 15 staff meeting of Effective Teaching Program, noting Ro Rosen
was director; list of questions, Marketing Phone Conference Follow-Up, December 2,
2004. See also Education and Learning Trust
|
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Election see Kerry
; see also Post-Election Summary
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Ellis Island Medal of Honor 5/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Program of 2005 award recipients; schedule of events; table seating list; flyer congratulating
NYSUT vice president Maria Neira on receiving the Medal of Honor; letters from National
Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, Inc., to Neira, informing her of her
nomination, January 26 and February 11, 2005; partial list of past recipients; related
memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 35 |
English Language Arts
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo to members of NYSUT Subject Area Committees for Elementary Education and English
Language Arts re request by State Education Department for review of revised English
Language Arts Resource Guide with Core Curriculum, March 11, 2005; list of focus questions;
analysis of current ELA core curriculum, comparison with revised core, March 10, 2005;
draft of core curriculum, March 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 36 |
English Language Learners Committee
|
2005-2008 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of committee members; invitation to first meeting, with tentative agenda, November
29, 2005; U.S. Department of Education No Child Left Behind Biennial Evaluation Report
to Congress on the Implementation of the State Formula Grant Program 2002-2004; English
Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement (ESEA, Title
II, Part A), March 15, 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 37 |
English Language Learners (ELL)
|
2003-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo to vice president Maria Neira and Chuck Santelli re proposed legislation, recommending
drafting a memo in opposition, March 17, 2005; text of proposed legislation to allow
local high school diploma to be given to students who pass a proficiency exam in their
native language; NYSUT Special Education Committee 2003-2005 End of Term Report, revised
February 2, 2005; report by National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, "Closing
the Achievement Gap: Improving Educational Outcomes for Hispanic Children," July 2003;
Testimony of Aminda Gentile, UFT Vice President and director, UFT Teachers Center
to the City Council Education Committee Hearing on English Language Learners Programs
in the New York City Public Schools, October 5, 2004
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 38 |
English Language Learners Bilingual News Clips
|
2004-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Article from New York Times re NYC Mayor Bloomberg's change in position on bilingual
education, June 25, 2003; National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics
web pages re task force mission, list of members, 2004; article from Education Week
re persistently high dropout rate among Hispanics, November 17, 2004
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 39 |
English Language Learners New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE)
Conference March 3-6, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Newsletter re NYSABE 28th annual conference, recent activities, fall 2004; conference
flyers; related information
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 40 |
English as a Second Language NYSESLAT 3/03/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation from the State Education Department to Standard Setting Conference for
the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT)
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 41 |
Executive Committee 9/20/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report of the executive director; 2007 end of legislative session update (NYSUT legislative
program priorities and bills that passed both houses of the legislature); memo re
final 403(b) regulations; resolution authorizing location of 2009 Representative Assembly
to be moved from Rochester to Buffalo if the labor dispute with the Crowne Plaza-Rochester
is not resolved; memo re Citizen Action campaign for comprehensive health care reform
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Executive Committee 12/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda and minutes; agenda of NYSUT Board of Directors meeting; minutes of NYSUT Board
of Directors meeting of September 17; procedure for reviewing expiring resolutions;
president's report; by-laws of Unity Caucus; agenda for Unity Caucus meeting of December
9, 2005; document from State Education Department, "A Call to Action: Follow-Up to
the New York Education Summit"; NYSUT Executive Committee managerial appointments;
resolutions referred to the Board of Directors by the 2005 Representative Assembly;
2006 Representative Assembly action items for Executive Committee and Board approval;
NYSUT Building Corporation Board of Directors meeting agenda and minutes of December
9; Building Corporation membership meeting agenda, December 10; minutes of Building
Corporation membership meeting of September 17, with balance sheet; minutes of NYSUT
Executive Committee meeting of November 3, 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 43 |
Executive Committee 11/3/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Booklet honoring former AFT president Sandra Feldman; list of potential speakers for
Sandra Feldman memorial; outline of oral report of first vice president Maria Neira;
letter from Citizen Action of New York re Progressive Leadership Awards event, October
5, 2005; letter from NYSUT president Richard Ianuzzi to local leaders re high budget
defeat rate, professional development workshops available to build public relations
skills, November 2
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 44 |
Executive Committee 10/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; outline of oral report of first vice president Maria Neira; resolution supporting
creation of disaster relief and scholarship fund; BOCES Committee nominations; memo
re management/confidential retiree health insurance, recommending shorter vesting
period, October 3, 2005; report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, "Overcoming Barriers
to People of Color in Union Leadership," October 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Executive Committee 9/16/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
President's Report; report of first vice president Maria Neira; report of second vice
president Kathleen Donahue; report of secretary-treasurer Ivan Tiger; NYSUT membership
comparison as of August 31, 2005; report of executive director Pauline Kinsella; 2006
Representative Assembly action items for Executive Committee and Board approval; membership
maps; New York Teacher December 8, 2005, reprint re combating the achievement gap;
description of "Academic Bill of Rights" and "Student Bill of Rights," created by
California-based conservative think tank to counter liberal views in higher education
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Executive Committee 6/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; minutes of May 24 meeting; report and outline of oral report of first vice
president Maria Neira; requests for affiliation; NYSUT Building Corporation Board
of Directors agenda; An Open Letter to [CUNY] Chancellor Goldstein on Academic Freedom,
from Barbara Brown, president, Professional Staff Congress, June 3; document, "We
Are CARU: the CUNY Alliance for Responsible Unionism," re "petition decrying the PSC's
silence on the blacklisting of Israeli academics"
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 47 |
Executive Committee 5/24/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report and outline of oral report of first vice president Maria Neira; report
of executive director of Field & Legal Services Pauline Kinsella; NYSUT management
list; list of officer liaisons to committees; 2005 delegate survey summary; 2005 Post
RA Survey Summary; report on attendance at 2005 Representative Assembly press release
and related materials re No Child Left Behind: Let's Get It Right campaign; memo re
Forbes article and Attorney General probe into 403(b) tax-deferred annuities and the
unions that endorse them, April 14
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 48 |
Executive Committee 3/15/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report of first vice president Maria Neira; report of executive director of
Field & Legal Services Pauline Kinsella; minutes of Executive Committee video conference
of February 15; materials re Task Force on Value-Added Accountability/Assessment;
handwritten notes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 49 |
Executive Committee 2/15/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report of first vice president; testimony of Alan Lubin, executive vice president,
NYSUT, to the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee, February
8 and 14; NYSUT press release, "Poll: Committee Chairs' Constituents Support Higher
Taxes on Wealthy; Want Tax Revenue to Help Pay for Public Schools," February 14, 2005;
survey results by Benchmark Polling Group; report by AFL- CIO Committee in the Evolution
of Work, "The Changing Situation of Workers and Their Unions," February 1985, with
cover note to AFT Executive Council, February 25, 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 50 |
Executive Committee 1/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; presidents' report; preliminary draft for internal use only, "Potential Impact
of Changing Regents Passing for 55 to 65"; nominations for "Not for Ourselves Alone"
Outstanding Leadership Award; list of NYSUT Constituency Award recipients; NYSUT Building
Corporation Board of Directors agenda for January 28 meeting and minutes of December
10, 2004, meeting
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 51 |
Executive Committee 12/10/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report and outline of oral report of first vice president; list of 2005 Field
Service conferences; draft NYSUT policy statement on SED proposals to amend Commissioner's
Regulations Section 52.21 related to full-time faculty staffing and workload requirements
for teacher preparation programs, December 2004; educational issues briefing to NYSUT
Board of Directors
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 52 |
Executive Committee Video Conference 11/15/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos from NYSUT president Tom Hobart re NYSUT/NEA unity, with attached document,
"Fundamental Beliefs to Create a Single State Union," November 11, 2004
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 53 |
Executive Committee 6/10/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report of first vice president; 2004-2005 budget presentation; report by executive
vice president Alan Lubin
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 54 |
Executive Committee 5/24/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; minutes of April 15 video conference; report and outline of oral report of
first vice president; addendum: NYSUT Reactions to the May 6, 2004, SED Middle-Level
Proposal; text of proposal; financial statement as of April 30, 2004; brochure, "Teachers,
Unions, and the Fight for Civil Rights"
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 55 |
Executive Committee 4/15/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; report of first vice president; membership and financial report from secretary-
treasurer Ivan Tiger; "Middle-Level Talking Points," highlighting newest SED proposal;
list of members of proposed task force on future of RAs
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 56 |
Executive Committee 2/12/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report of first vice president; minutes of March 25, 2004, meeting; resolution submitted
to the NYSUT Board of Directors, Care of Diabetic Children in Schools, calling for
licensed registered nurse in every school; material re Regents Examination in Mathematics
A; spreadsheet re NYSUT/LSA negotiations, tentative agreement
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 57 |
Exemplar Todd Feigenbaum 11/17/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Maria Neira and Feigenbaum, managing partner, Exemplar LLC,
to arrange meeting, noting (USNY?) summit
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 58 |
Expiring Resolutions
|
2002 |
|
Scope and Contents
Several edited drafts of procedure for expiring resolutions
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 59 |
Sandra Feldman Conference Calls 11/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of potential speakers; minutes of 10/28/05 planning meeting; draft of script
for recorded outgoing message on RSVP phone line, 11/2/05, with handwritten list of
conference call dates; notice of next planning meeting, with conference call information
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 60 |
Field and Legal Services 12/8/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; related memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 61 |
Field and Legal Services Management 9/21/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 62 |
Field and Legal Services Meeting 4/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 63 |
Field and Legal Services 3/3/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, including op-ed from Schenectady Daily Gazette, "National teacher
certification isn't worth it," March 2, 2005; presentation re Rochester Teachers Association
Dial-a-Teacher tutoring program; Rochester City School District Supplemental Education
Plan (SEP); handwritten notes from regional staff meeting
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 64 |
Field and Legal Services Labor at the Crossroads Conference December 2-3, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference agenda
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 65 |
Field and Legal Services Legal Staff Meeting 11/22/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda of staff meeting
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 66 |
Field and Legal Services Management Regional Staff Directors Retreat 11/9/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
A Guide to Field & Legal Services; agenda for retreat, November 8-10; list of discussion
items for officers Tom Hobart, Dick Ianuzzi, Maria Neira
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 67 |
Four-State Study on Improving College Readiness and Success
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
The Governance Divide: A Report on a Four-State Study on Improving College Readiness
and Success, September 2005, by Institute for Educational Leadership, National Center
for Public Policy and Higher Education, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 68 |
Grow Network 3/3/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Meeting agenda, March 3, 2004; presentation sheets, "AFT and Grow Network: Making
Data Useful for Instruction"; newsletters/reports, including sample showing individualized
2004 standardized test results in NYC; folder packets
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 69 |
Health and Safety Conference March 11-13, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Tentative program; invitation to local presidents
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 70 |
PFT Health and Welfare Fund February 25-26, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Poster for "Programs for Teaching" conference sponsored by Philadelphia Federation
of Teachers Health and Welfare Fund; agenda
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 71 |
High School Focus Group 5/17/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of teachers, high school focus group participants; memos; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 72 |
High Schools PSA 4/26/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of high school focus group participants; memos; list of low-performing schools
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 73 |
High-Tech High Schools 6/21/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re setting up meeting to discuss high-tech high schools, with handwritten
notes
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 74 |
Higher Education Council Meeting 9/30/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; outline of introductory remarks, noting attendance by Deputy Commissioner
of Education Johanna Duncan-Poitier
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 75 |
Higher Education Council Meeting 4/7/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Minutes of NYSUT Higher Education Council meeting of April 7; articles from Inside
Higher Education: "Next Step for Higher Ed Act," September 9; "Rare Win for Private
College Unions," "A Gag on Public Faculty?" "New Challenge to Evolution," August 29;
"Calling Off Ann Coulter," September 1
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 76 |
Higher Education Council Meeting January 7-8, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 77 |
Higher Education Council Meeting October 22-23, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of members of council; draft Master Plan 2004- 2008, State University
of New York; Master Plan 2004-2008, City University of New York; articles from Chronicle
of Higher Education; correspondence from State Education Department
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 78 |
Higher Education Database Project 5/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Meeting agenda; statement of purpose; outlines of design team, finance elements, characteristics
of students and faculty; charts showing changes in state and local share of school
revenues, 1982-2004, annual change in state aid, 1990-2005; school aid in the 2005-06
legislative budget; School District/ Community Special Information Packet: Newark,
for Rochester Regional Office Negotiations Workshop, January 2005
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 79 |
Higher Education Full-Time Faculty Policy Modification 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between NYSUT vice president Maria Neira and Education Deputy Commissioner
Poitier re change in Commissioner's Regulations re full-time faculty requirements
for accreditation of institutions of higher learning for education programs
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 80 |
Higher Education Lobby Day February 28-March 1, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; related memos
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 81 |
Hispanic Affairs Committee (HAC) Gala (UFT) 1/26/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation and correspondence; handwritten notes for remarks; newspaper clipping (opinion
column re teacher pay); tickets to event; memorabilia; letter to Randi Weingarten,
president, UFT, from Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund re annual awards
gala, November 17, 2004
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 82 |
HAC Gala Event 11/30/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Program; handwritten notes for remarks; related correspondence
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 83 |
HAC/Somos El Futuro
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of contacts
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 84 |
2005 Hispanic Heritage Month
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Census facts; list of events
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 85 |
Hispanic Caucus
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Top 3 Policy Recommendations from 2004 Issues Conference
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 86 |
NYSUT History Project
|
1989-1990 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to vice president Antonia Cortese re NYSUT
history project, with attached questions for oral history interview, developed by
interns, November 1, 1989; follow-up letter from Hobart admitting to not reading the
questions thoroughly, noting that questions re 1978 convention were inappropriate
and would not be included, November 2; Outline for Video History of New York State
United Teachers, covering period 1960-71, discussing issues re merger between NYSTA
and United Teachers of New York; brochure, "We Are the People Who Help New York to
Learn" April 1990
|
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| Box 3 | Folder 87 |
Holiday/ Solidarity Reception 12/3/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Flyer for Holiday/Solidarity Reception at NYSUT Southwest Regional Office
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Independent Commission on Public Education (ICOPE)
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Documents, ICOPE's Vision and ICOPE Education Action Summit Platform: Building a Human
Rights Vision for New York City Public Schools; list of Teachers of the Year, 1965-2006
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
ING Life Insurance: Opportunity Plus
|
2004-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Description of benefit for NYSUT members; letters to members from NYSUT president
Richard Ianuzzi and benefits chair Ivan Tiger
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Inservice Meeting 5/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Progress report for planned conference, tentatively planned for March 23-24, 2006
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
In-Service Conference Debriefing 2/3/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference Evaluation Report on 23rd Annual Statewide Conference on Inservice Education,
October 23-24, 2004; debriefing reports from co-chairs, others; revenue and expense
reports
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Inservice Conference 10/24-26/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Program for 23rd Annual Statewide Conference on Inservice Education, "Strengthening
Teaching and Learning"; talking points and text of remarks for Maria Neira, introducing
keynote speaker, Dr. Terrence Roberts; biography of Dr. Roberts
|
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|
Job Training Improvement Act see AFT Job Training Improvement Act
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Just For The Kids 11/19/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter to NYSUT president Tom Hobart from Susan D. Phillips, chair of Just For The
KidsNew York (JFTK) and dean of the School of Education, SUNY University at Albany,
inviting him to join Advisory Board of JFTK, describing program, October 20, 2004;
handwritten note re conversation with Jeanette Angelo, SUNY Albany, November 3, 2004;
memo from Phillips to Chuck Santelli, welcoming him to advisory board, November 10,
2004; memo from Phillips re high performing schools, with attached list, including
racial and income demographics; minutes of Advisory Board meeting of 11/19/04
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
James Kadamus Q and A Grades 3-8 Testing Program New York Teacher Article December
2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Article by James Kadamus, State Education Department Deputy Commissioner for Elementary,
Middle, Secondary, and Continuing Education; questions and answers re mathematics
and English language arts test for grades 3-8. See also Mathematics Standards Committee (SED)
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Kerry/Bush Debate House Party 9/30/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo to NYSUT Headquarters staff, Public Employees Federation, CSEA, and Capital District
Area Labor Federation, from NYSUT executive director Alan Lubin, inviting them to
party to view screening of film about Democratic presidential candidate and decorated
Vietnam war hero, "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," attend dinner, and
then watch the presidential debate between Kerry and incumbent president George W.
Bush, September 20; save-the-date memo from Lubin to NYSUT headquarters staff re September
30 Kerry/Bush debate "house party," September 16. See also Post-Election Summary
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
LM-2 Reporting
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from Maria Neira estimating percentage of time spent on U.S. Department of Labor
categories (representational, political and lobbying, contributions, gifts, and grants,
general overhead, and union administration), for annual LM-2 report, November 10,
2005
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Local Action Project (LAP)
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Presentation sheets, mostly photos, "Energizing Locals for Greater Success"
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
LAP 2005 (2004 Conference Evaluations et al.)
|
2004-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Program for 2005 conference; evaluations; applications, with local information; letters
to Hempstead Teachers Association and several other locals re acceptance in Local
Action Project, May 9, 2005
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
LAP Review of 2005 LAP Planning Conference 9/26/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
2005 NYSUT LAP Conference (July 18-21, 2005) Evaluations; Local Action Project 2005
program
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
LAP Summer Planning Conference July 18-21, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
2005 Local Action Project Summer Planning Conference: Maria Neira's Opening Remarks
(several drafts); introduction of Mark Richard by Maria Neira; program; related memos
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
LAP Summer Planning Conference 7/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Local Action Project Summer Planning Conference: Maria Neira's Opening Remarks
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
LAP 2005 4/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Notes on meeting of April 22; related memos
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
LAP Budget Requests
|
2006-2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
LAP budget requests for various locals, marked "Class of 2005," "Class of 2006," "Class
of 2007"
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
LAP Budget Meeting 10/31/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Annual budget submission instructions; memo to LAP Committee re 2005-2006 grant requests,
November 1, 2005
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
LAP Budget Meeting 7/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Instructions for annual budget submission; memos re meeting
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Meeting 3/6/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Pre-RA Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference meeting agenda, March 6, 2006;
meeting minutes of January 27, 2006
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Meeting 12/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference program, May 3-4, 2006; meeting minutes
of Pre-RA Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference planning meeting of October
4, 2005;
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Meeting 2006 Zoilo Rodriguez 10/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Tentative schedule for Pre-RA Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference, April
6-7, 2005; program; meeting agenda of October 4, 2005; 2005 Local Presidents' Conference
Evaluations; correspondence
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Meeting 10/4/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Facilitative correspondence; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Tom Anapolis Meeting 4/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
2005 New Local Presidents' timeline; program; flyer re conference; letters of invitation;
related correspondence. See also New Local Presidents
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Local Presidents Conference Summary April 6-7, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Summary of responses to questions re testing requirements, other issues
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Local Presidents Conference Meeting 3/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Facilitative correspondence
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee 11/12/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; tentative schedule for NYSUT Pre-RA Local and Retiree Council Presidents'
Conference, April 6-7, 2005; program for Pre-Representative Assembly NYSUT Local Presidents'
Conference, March 23-25, 2004; 2004 Local Presidents' Conference Evaluation Form
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Local Presidents Conference Planning Committee Meeting 12/17/03
|
2003 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; tentative schedule for NYSUT Pre-RA Local Presidents' Conference, March 24-25,
2004; Newsweek column, "A New Kind of Poverty," by Anna Quindlen, December 1, 2003;
memos; evaluations from 2003 Local Presidents' Conference; related correspondence
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Local Presidents Survey K-12 Executive Summary 2004-2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft executive summary
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Pre-RA Local Presidents Conference Planning Meeting 2/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda of 2005 Pre-RA Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference planning meeting
of February 23, 2004; conference agenda; planning meeting minutes of December 15,
2004
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 30 |
Pre-RA Local Presidents and Retiree Council Conference Planning Meeting 12/15/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Local and Retiree Council Presidents' Conference program, April 6-7, 2005; conference
planning meeting minutes of November 12, 2004
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 31 |
Management Meeting 12/9/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; materials re "Effective Teaching Program, NYSUT's Education and Learning Trust";
letter to local presidents re Education and Learning Trust, December 6, 2004; 2005
course catalog for Education and Learning Trust
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 32 |
Managers Monthly Reports December 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Research Department manager's report
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Managers Monthly Reports November 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Educational Services Department manager's report; Research Department manager's report
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 34 |
Managers Monthly Reports September 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Research Department manager's
report; July/August monthly report for Education and Learning Trust
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Managers Monthly Reports August 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Educational Services Department manager's report
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 36 |
Managers Monthly Reports July 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress reports for July and August; Educational
Services Department manager's report; Research Department manager's report
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Managers Monthly Reports June 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Educational Services Department
manager's report; Research Department manager's report; monthly report for Education
and Learning Trust
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Managers Monthly Reports May 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Educational Services Department
manager's report; Research Department manager's report; monthly report for Education
and Learning Trust
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 39 |
Managers Monthly Reports April 05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Educational Services Department
manager's reports for March and April; Research Department manager's report
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Managers Monthly Reports March 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Managers Monthly Reports January 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Managers Monthly Reports December 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; monthly report for Education
and Learning Trust
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 43 |
Managers Monthly Reports November 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Research Department manager's
report; monthly report for Education and Learning Trust
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 44 |
Managers Monthly Reports October 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
School Finance and Policy Development progress report; Research Department manager's
report; monthly report for Education and Learning Trust
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 45 |
Managers Meeting 7/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo reminder of meeting
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 46 |
Managers Retreat June 7-8, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Participant feedback sheets; text of welcoming remarks by first vice president Maria
Neira, outlining objectives of the meeting; text of remarks by president Richard Ianuzzi,
discussing mission statement, unification, changes in management titles; small group
discussion items
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 47 |
Managers Retreat Planning Committee Meeting 6/03/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from NYSUT president Richard Ianuzzi re management title changes, June 3, 2005;
2005 NYSUT Management list; 2005-2008 NYSUT Committees Officer Liaisons
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 48 |
Managers Retreat Planning Committee Meeting 5/24/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Proposed retreat agenda; minutes of Planning Committee meeting of May 11; agenda of
Planning Committee meeting of May 4; possible questions for discussion; text of Maria
Neira's and Richard Ianuzzi's remarks; small group discussion items
|
|||
|
Math League see NYS Math League
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 49 |
Math Test Grades 4 and 8 Press Conference 10/6/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Charts, graphs, and spreadsheets re elementary and middle-level mathematics in public
schools, 1999-2004, district and school performance for intermediate-level mathematics;
memo re press conference
|
|||
|
Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant Program see NCLB Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant Program
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 50 |
Mathematics Standards Committee (SED) Grades 3-8 November 17, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
State Education Department Math Survey: Suggested NYSUT Response; report of the State
Education Department Mathematics Standards Committee, October 27, 2005; request for
public comment; agenda for NYSUT mathematics meeting, November 17, 2004; list of participants;
draft survey questions for new math standards; presentation sheets re NYS's learning
standards and grade 3-8 testing in English language arts and mathematics, fall 2004.
See also James Kadamus Q&A Grades 3-8 Testing Program
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 51 |
Mentor-Teacher Contract Language Search 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Document by NYSUT Research Department, Contract Language Search on Mentor/Teacher,
listing text of contract language from South Lewis, Fredonia, Beaver River, Cazenovia,
Harrison, South Glens Falls, Clarence, Fairport, Grand Island, Kenmore, and Hunter-Tannersville
teachers associations
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 52 |
Middle Level Education
|
2004-2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Preliminary draft of proposed amendments to sections 100.3 and 100.4 of Commissioner's
Regulations relating to implementation of Middle-Level Strategy, April 29, 2005; ACT
policy report, College Readiness Begins in Middle school, 2005; revised Strategy to
Implement the Regents Policy Statement on Middle-Level Education, December 1, 2004;
Report of the New York City Council Middle School Task Force, August 2007; Executive
Summary, Breaking Ranks in the Middle: Strategies for Leading Middle Level Reform,
by National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Education Alliance,
Brown University; A Voice from the Middle: Highlights of the 2007 NASSP/PDK Middle
School Student Poll; Regents discussion items, Public Reaction to Alternative Approaches
to Implementation of the Regents Policy Statement on Middle-Level Education, January
7, 2004, and Strategy for Implementing the Regents Policy Statement on Middle-Level
Education, February 6, 2004; State Education Department press release, "The New York
State Education Department Announces Essential Elements: Schools-to-Watch Recognition
Program," March 1, 2005
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 53 |
Middle Level Liaisons Meeting 05/19/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; materials from the May 20-21, 2004, meeting of Middle-Level Liaisons, October
4, 2004; Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools and Programs,
revised 2003; Middle Level Rubric Development, by Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd.,
for Statewide Network of Middle Level Education Liaisons, May 21, 2004
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 54 |
Middle Level: Hudson City Schools
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from Deputy Commissioner James Kadamus to James N. Baldwin, district superintendent
of Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene Counties, re issues identified in Hudson City School
District, including continued over-classification of black students as disabled, highest
percentage of reported incidents of disruptive or violent behavior in the state, requesting
meeting, July 1, 2005
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 55 |
Middle Level Proposal
|
2004-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from State Education Chancellor Robert M. Bennett to NYSUT vice president Maria
Neira re Three-Model Strategy to Implement the Regents Policy Statement on Middle-Level
Education, specifically her concerns re Model C applications and ability of district
superintendents to approve applications, March 2, 2005; memo from Maria Neira to NYSUT
Board of Directors re her letter to Kadamus, continuing uncertainty over implementation
of models, November 2, 2004; related memos
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 56 |
Middle Level Education Lee Cutler October-November 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from Maria Neira to Chancellor Robert M. Bennett re latest version of Middle-Level
proposal, October 28, 2004; memos re Lee Cutler
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 57 |
NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) Science Report
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
"Less Than Proficient: A Review of the Draft Science Framework for the 2009 National
Assessment of Educational Progress," by Paul R. Gross, October 24, 2005
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 58 |
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) DC Summit 10/13/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft agenda for summit, the State of Latino Education; summary of National Council
of State Legislatures (NCSL) final report on No Child Left Behind; recommendations
of NCSL task force; presentation sheets on NCLB for NYS NAACP workshop; report, Immigration
Trends and Their Implications for U.S. Schools, Migration Policy Institute; AFT presentation
sheets re NCLB
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 59 |
NALEO National Education Leadership Initiative (NELI) National Advisory Committee
|
2004-2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter to Maria Neira from NALEO, thanking her for agreeing to serve on advisory committee
of NELI, January 5, 2005; invitation to join and description of NELI, October 18,
2004
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 60 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
|
2005-2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter to Maria Neira from Johanna Duncan-Poitier, deputy commissioner of education,
re districts receiving Mentor Teacher Internship Program (MTIP) funds, July 14, 2005;
Education Week article, "Sidetracking the Debate On Teacher Quality," November 15,
2005, with cover letter to Board of Directors of National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards (NBPTS), December 14, 2006; NBPTS biographies of slate of candidates for
Exceptional Needs Standards Committee, with cover letter to Board of Directors, November
20, 2006; NYSUT charts, National Board Certified Teacher Data as of January 9, 2007;
Education Week online article, "National Board Teachers No Better Than Other Educators,
Long-Awaited Study Finds," May 9, 2006; NBPTS bylaws, list of board members, and other
materials, sent to Maria Neira as new board member, November 9, 2006
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 61 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Meeting 12/8/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
NYSUT Information Bulletin re National Board Certification, February 2006; Q&A for
NYSUT Local Leaders; paper, "Using National Standards to Redesign Master's Degrees
for Teachers: A Guide for Institutions of Higher Learning" by Joan Packer Isenberg,
February 2003; brochures; presentation sheets re statistics on certification, funding;
list of certified teachers in NYS; CD, "Awareness and Recruitment Toolkit," December
2006
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 62 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification 2005-2007
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
A Candidate's Guide to National Board Certification, 2006-2007 and 2005; letter from
Maria Neira congratulating teacher for certification, with tentative agenda for celebration
event, March 2005; proposal for summit meeting; fact sheet on certification rates;
list of candidates (?); map of 2004 National Board Certified Teachers by school district
locations
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 63 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Press Conference 12/2/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
NBPTS Press release, "Students of National Board Certified Teacher Achieve Larger
Gains on Statewide Math Test in Florida; New Research Points to National a Board Certification
as Key Indicator of Teacher Quality," November 17, 2004; NYSUT press release with
attached list of NYS teachers earning national certification, December 2, 2004; related
memos
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 64 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Press Conference 11/30/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Press conference agenda, November 30, 2005; talking points for Maria Neira for National
Board Certified Teachers Press Conference; text of remarks by Neira; memo with additional
information as context for Neira; national data re certified teachers; list of certified
teachers
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 65 |
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards National Board Certified Teachers
|
2005-2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Key points about the 2006 NBPTS score release, noting dramatic increase; press release,
"Number of National Board Certified Teachers Tops 55.000: Nearly 7,800 teachers achieve
National Board Certification in 2006," January 9, 2007; 2006 NBPTS Score Release Key
Messages and Talking Points; talking points for Maria Neira at May 21, 2005, press
conference; presentation sheets for NBPTS Board of Directors meeting, "National Board
Certified Teachers: Rhetoric, Research, and Reality," October 14, 2006; Education
Week article, "Sidetracking the Debate on Teacher Quality: Have high expectations
given way to the lowest common denominator?" re shift in emphasis since of No Child
Left Behind; press release, "NBPTS Elects New Board Members: Board members include
11 National Certified Teachers," November 14, 2006
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, n.d.
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|
|
Scope and Contents
Description of nonprofit organization and services
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
NEA Staff Meet and Greet 11/30/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation and memos
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
NYSUT Employees Outreach Network (NEON) Committee 9/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from NEON Committee re year-end results and 2005-2006 planned activities; report
of activities and charities benefitting from Dress Down Day, June August 2005; materials
re Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Catholic Charities, March of Dimes, American
Cancer Society, other charitable organizations; memos re events
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
NEON: Special Events Day 4/29/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letters to community charity organizations from NEON Committee, and copies of contribution
checks
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
NEON Committee
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for September 22 meeting; minutes of September 9 meeting; holiday gift wrapping
service/fundraiser flyer and signup sheet; year-end report and 2005-06 schedule; list
of Title I schools in need of improvement under No Child Left Behind, for NYC and
upstate, September 2002; correspondence re NEON activities for March-May 2005, December
2004-February 2005; materials re Dress Down Day
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
New Local Presidents Conference July 11-14, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference program; bullet points, Maria's intro for Jim Wood (final and earlier draft);
outline of general remarks by Maria Neira; intro to AFT History Video: "A Proud Tradition,"
NLPC, July 12; agenda
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
New Local Presidents Conference (NLPC) Debriefing 10/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Evaluation forms
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
New Local Presidents Conference (NLCP) Meeting 7/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference program; related correspondence
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
NYS AFL-CIO
|
2005-2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Constitution of New York State AFL-CIO, as amended through August 2004; letter from
NYS AFL-CIO president Denis Hughes to Maria Neira, congratulating her on her election
as vice president of the state federation, September 12, 2005; cover memo to Executive
Council members re federal election law for union staff using union resources, with
attached document, January 2006
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
NYS AFL-CIO Executive Council Meeting 12/09/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Meeting agenda; resolution re executive structure; resolution re retirement of Paul
Cole as secretary-treasurer; letter of resignation from Cole, November 3, 2005; minutes
of August 3, 2005, meeting; budget projection, by department, for period of July 1,
2005 to June 30, 2006; letter to Maria Neira informing her that she had been recommended
for election as vice president of the New York State AFL-CIO, October 31, 2005; Neira
biographical sketch; list of program services recommended for Retiree Services; Unity
Caucus 2005 membership list (directors); letter to NYS AFL-CIO president Denis Hughes
from Rep. Vito Fosella, informing him that Worker's Compensation funding of $125 million
for 9/11 recovery workers had been restored, November 29, 2005
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
NYS AFL-CIO COPE (Committee on Political Education) Report 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from House Speaker Dennis Hastert to Rep. Vito Fosella, assuring him that $125
million in Worker's Compensation funding for 9/11 recovery workers would be restored,
November 21, 2005; newspaper clipping from The Chief Civil Service Leader: The Civil
Employees' Weekly, re restoration of funding, December 2, 2005; COPE Report, calling
field operation for Budget Reform proposal one of the worst statewide efforts in recent
history, in contrast to the winning campaign for the Transportation Bond Act, December
9, 2005; campaign materials for propositions and candidate; unofficial Board of Elections
results for propositions, by county
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
NYS AFL-CIO COPE Day at the Races 16th Annual Benefit 8/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation to benefit for Committee on Political Education (COPE) at Saratoga Race
Course
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
National AFL-CIO Convention 7/25-29/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
AFL-CIO Convention Key Issues for AFT Delegates, noting AFT position on resolutions;
letter from Westchester-Putnam Counties AFL-CIO Central Labor Body to Maria Neira,
asking that NYSUT pay one-time extra month in dues to AFL-CIO so that delegates would
be assured of ability to vote at convention, August 1, 2005; critical report of July
4, 2005, NEA convention, by the Education Intelligence Agency, forwarded to NYSUT
officers, July 5, 2005; e-mail reports of NYSUT at AFL-CIO convention, July 24-28,
2005; update from AFT Legislation Department, "House Narrowly Approves CAFTA After
Midnight Vote," July 28, 2005; AFT press release, "Statement by Edward J. McElroy,
President, American Federation of Teachers, on CAFTA (Central American Free Trade
Agreement): Wrong Rx for U.S. Economy and Workers," July 28, 2005
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
NYS AFL-CIO 1/5/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation to State of the State Breakfast Reception
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
NYS Council of School Superintendents September 25-27, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Conference program: "Achievement and the Arts: Advancing Student Success"; letters
of invitation to Charles Santelli and Maria Neira
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
NYS Math League
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos requesting check for winner of 2005 Mathematics League Competition, address
correction; copy of check; correspondence re 2004 winner; memo ordering plaque, specifying
wording; correspondence re 2003 and 2002 winners
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
New York Teacher 9/5/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; NEA wraparound for NEA members, to accompany first mailing
of New York Teacher, post-merger, September 7, 2006
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
New York Teacher Meeting 2/15/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
New York Teacher 10/3/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; halftone photos with captions. See also Kadamus
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
New York Teacher Meeting 9/19/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
New York Teacher 8/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; production schedule; schedule of Communications Planning
meetings
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
New York Teacher 6/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 23 |
New York Teacher: Standards 6/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 24 |
New York Teacher 5/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; memos
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 25 |
New York Teacher 5/9/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; memos re meetings
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 26 |
New York Teacher 4/25/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; article from Wall Street Journal, "Reading, 'Riting,
Reform," 4/7/05, with note to Maria Neira's attention; partial AFT executive vice
president report (via e-mail)
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 27 |
New York Teacher 3/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 28 |
New York Teacher 2/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 29 |
New York Teacher 2/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 30 |
New York Teacher 1/28/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 31 |
New York Teacher 1/18/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; article, "Governor's Budget Proposal Better Than Expected";
proposed officer visit schedule, 2004-2006
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| Box 5 | Folder 32 |
New York Teacher Meetings
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2004-2005 |
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Scope and Contents
List of Communications meetings for the remainder of New York Teacher publishing year
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| Box 5 | Folder 33 |
New York Teacher Meeting 11/15/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list; memos re unification talks
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| Box 5 | Folder 34 |
New York Teacher Meeting 11/1/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 35 |
New York Teacher Meeting 10/18/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 36 |
New York Teacher Meeting 10/4/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 37 |
New York Teacher Meeting 4/5/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 38 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 5/17/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 39 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 5/3/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 40 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 4/19/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 41 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 3/8/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 42 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 2/9/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 43 |
New York Teacher / Communications Meeting 1/26/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
New York Teacher story list
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| Box 5 | Folder 44 |
New York Teacher Communications Brainstorming Day 6/11/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda for Communications Brainstorming Day; handwritten notes; memo re meeting
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| Box 5 | Folder 45 |
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2004
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter from the NYS Education Department to U.S. Department of Education with formal
submission of revised Accountability Workbook reflecting NYS's approved plan to calculate
Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind, and formal amendment to workbook
for calculating progress of students with significant cognitive disabilities, August
21, 2004; "Failing Our Children" summary report by FairTest: The National Center for
Fair and Open Testing, critiquing No Child Left Behind, May 2004; "Accountability
Left Behind: While Children and Schools Face High Stakes Testing, Tutoring Companies
Get a Free Ride," a study by the Association of Community Organization for Reform
Now (ACORN) and the American Institute for Social Justice; list of schools failing
to meet AYP under No Child Left Behind, September 20, 2004; State Education Department
field memos. See also AFT No Child Left Behind
; see also Committee of Practitioners
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| Box 5 | Folder 46 |
NCLB National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter to NYSUT executive vice president Antonia Cortese from the president of Nassau
BOCES Central Council of Teachers, Local 2551, noting that the National Council of
State Legislatures issued a report that No Child Left Behind was a flawed, convoluted,
unconstitutional education initiative that had usurped state and local control of
public schools, and asking why the law had not been challenged in court and what action
the AFT might take, March 16, 2005
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| Box 5 | Folder 47 |
NCLB Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant Program
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
State Education Department list of awarded partnerships, 2004-2007. See also under
Mathematics
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| Box 5 | Folder 48 |
NCLB Rochester Tutoring
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2003 |
|
Scope and Contents
Text of article from American Teacher, "Rochester to Provide Local Tutoring," May/June
2004
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 49 |
NYSUT Annual Reports
|
1987-1990 |
|
Scope and Contents
Annual reports for 1987, 1988, and 1990
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 50 |
NYSUT / NEA Membership Map
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Map of NYSUT Election Districts, with list of school districts and affiliations (NYSUT,
NEA, or both), cover memo, December 1, 2005
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| Box 5 | Folder 51 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meeting 11/17/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; draft (not yet submitted) New York State Center for (Independent) State Testing
Reviews (STR), submitted by Westchester Institute for Humans Services Research, Inc.,
to Gov. George Pataki, 11/3/05; NYSUT Regents' Report Card re November 2004 Board
of Regents meeting; Member Benefits Chairperson Report by Ivan Tiger
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 52 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meeting Education and Learning Trust 6/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Materials for new course proposed by Ro Rosen of the NYSUT Education and Learning
Trust, "A Framework for Leadership," with cover letter to Chuck Santelli, June 16,
2005; course outline and syllabus; presentation sheets for NYSUT Education and Learning
Trust; 2005-2006 budget proposal overview; agenda of Education and Learning Trust
Board of Directors meeting, June 22; minutes of March 1 meeting
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 53 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meeting 6/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo re management/confidential salary adjustments for 2005-2006; lists of individual
salaries, 2004-06 to 2007-08; full employment and salary histories of several individuals
since hire
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 54 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meeting 6/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
NYSUT 2005-06 Budget
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 55 |
Officers Advisory Committee 4/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 56 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meetings 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Schedule of meeting dates for 2005
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 57 |
Officers Advisory Committee Meeting 7/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Packet of resolutions referred for implementation by the Representative Assembly,
with cover letter, July 22
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 58 |
Officers Cabinet Retreat June 4-5, 2007
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Officers' Retreat agenda, June 4-5; Cabinet Retreat agenda, June 5; agenda for NYSUT
Local Action Project 2007 Summer Planning Conference Agenda, July 16-20, 2007; draft
agenda for NYSUT New Local Presidents Conference, June 26-29, 2007; text of oral report
of first vice president Maria Neira to NYSUT Executive Committee, June 7; confidential
results from Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Report re racial and gender breakdown
of full-time and other regular staff, 1999-2006; report re declining membership of
AAUP (American Association of University Professions); dress code policy; list of
NEA and/or AFT meetings/conferences, September 2006-August 2007; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 59 |
Officers Meeting 5/8/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; May 2007 issue of Latino New York, monthly magazine of the Capital Region;
VOTE/COPE 2006 Report, showing charts, graphs, and lists by regional office; management/confidential
salary adjustments for FY 2007-08; memo to NYSUT president Dick Ianuzzi re resolutions
to come before the AFT Exec Council meeting, May 7; list of regional office staffing;
memos requesting new positions or extraordinary salary increases. See also Board of Directors meetings
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 60 |
Officers Meeting 3/27/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list, NYSUT Leadership Class of 2007; tax info for NYSUT locals; booklet,
NYSUT Dues Proposal 2007-08 and 2008-09 Questions and Answers; standing rules for
NYSUT delegation, 2007 NEA Representative Assembly; proposed officer visit schedule;
flood relief accounting as of March 20, 2007; memo re appointment of legislative representative,
salary, March 26
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 61 |
Officers Meeting 3/12/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee agenda for March 16 meeting; NYSUT booklet, Guide to Program
Services; AFL-CIO Executive Council Statement, "End Our Military Involvement in Iraq,"
March 7, 2007; confidential memo requesting increase in staffing of Travel & Conference
Services, February 27
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 62 |
Officers Meeting 2/21/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; letter to Maria Neira from New York Immigration Coalition requesting sponsorship
of Builders of New York awards celebration, February 2; materials re 2006 contribution
to coalition; memo re reclassification of position, February 8; materials re NEA Representative
Assembly
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 63 |
Officers Meeting 2/6/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee agenda for February 9; Board of Directors meeting agenda
for February 9- 10; memo re 2007 community service award winners
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 64 |
Officers Meeting 1/16/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee agenda for February 9; Board of Directors meeting agenda
for February 9- 10; memo re fundraising campaign for Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial;
memo re 2007 Representative Assembly move from printing to web publication, invited
speakers
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 65 |
Officers Meeting Dues Discussion 1/8/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo confirming meeting
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 66 |
Officers Meeting 8/7/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee agenda for August 9; Board of Directors meeting agenda
for August 9; memo re NYSUT Solidarity Grant, June 20; program for NYSUT Local Presidents'
Conference, August 6-8, 2006; 2006-2007 proposed governance calendar (list of meetings),
updated August 1, 2006; list of NYSUT attendees at 2006 AFL-CIO COPE Convention; presentation
sheets re NYSUT Research & Educational Services, presented at Local Presidents' Conference,
August 2006; memo alert re training for Violent and Disruptive Incident reporting
(VADIR), July 20
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 67 |
Officers Meeting 6/20/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes for opening session of staff training conference of June 19; related
memos
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 68 |
Officers Retreat June 14-15, 2006
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 69 |
Officers Meeting 6/6/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo re opposition to rural power line proposal; memo re deletion of term
"English immersion" from proposed resolution
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 70 |
Officers Meeting 5/24/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee agenda for June 8; Board of Directors meeting agenda for
June 26; NYSUT 2006-2007 budget: revenue and expense narrative; application for regional
staff director for the Southern Tier, with attached resume; list of possible resolutions
for submission to the 2006 AFT Convention, from the 2005 and 2006 Representative Assemblies
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 71 |
Officers Meeting 5/9/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; officer compensation comparison with other unions; New York Post editorial
re relationship between NYSUT and financial services firm ING
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 72 |
Officers Meeting 4/18/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; New York Times clipping re "taxpayer revolt" movement stopping school budgets,
April 16; proposed Administrative Professionals Day mailing lists
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 73 |
Officers Meeting 4/7/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Professional Issues Forum on Health Care program, sponsored by NYSUT Health
Care Professionals Council, April 1; memos re management/confidential promotion recommendation
from general counsel's office, April 4; 2006 Leadership Institute applicants; proposed
Leadership Institute Class of 2006; letter from NYSUT Civil & Human Rights Committee
to NYS Teachers Retirement System, urging gradual divestment in Wal-Mart, March 15;
list of state retirement systems invested in companies active in Sudan; list of priority
consensus statements from March 8 Administrative Committee meeting, March 21
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 74 |
Officers Meeting 3/8/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; timeline, Communications Response to Governor's Backdoor Voucher Scheme (as
of March 8, 2006); list of 2006 conferences; list of guests at 2006 Representative
Assembly; urgent memo from NYSUT president Ianuzzi to Nassau presidents re need to
respond immediately to tuition tax credit proposal, March 8
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 75 |
Officers Meeting 2/14/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Executive Committee meeting agenda for February 16; draft guidelines for summer
internships, February 14, 2006; Associate Press article, "Tax credits for private
school parents pressed," February 14; draft letter with handwritten edits, to producers
of ABC television show 20/20, demanding an on-air apology by John Stossel for his
January 13 segment, "Stupid in America," which criticized teachers "who strive against
enormous adds [sic]"
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 76 |
Officers Meeting 1/17/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; draft Officers' Advisory Committee meeting agenda, January 19; draft NYSUT
Bargaining Units Retreat Agenda, February 15; press release, "NYSUT: Governor Turns
Back on Seniors, Students and Middle Class," January 17; text of governor's budget
address, January 17; draft letter to Education Commission Mills from NYS Educational
Conference Board; legislative newsletter
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 77 |
Officers Meeting 1/10/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Schedule for management/confidential salary proposals, 2006; salary histories for
several individuals
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 78 |
Officers Meeting 11/15/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Update to NYSUT Officers on Unification Planning and Implementation, November
9, 2005; Update on Unification Planning and Implementation, October 28, 2005; letter
to Kathleen Lyons, NEA-NY Executive Director, from Pauline Kinsella, NYSUT Executive
Director, re unification, October 25, 2005; memos re scope of work for various capital
projects; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 79 |
Officers Meeting 11/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; calculator wheel for determining annual out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions
for Medicare beneficiaries; memo revising reimbursement process for meals by officers
when travelling or entertaining, October 24; materials re 2006 Representative Assembly;
correspondence between retired NYSUT president Tom Hobart and Organization of NYSUT
Staff Retirees, May-October 2005; Retiree Leadership Handbook; sketches for Sandra
Feldman Memorial Garden; newspaper clipping re dedication of annual Strides Against
Breast Cancer Walk to Sandra Feldman
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 80 |
Officers Meeting 9/21/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Peer Intervention Program Year 17 Final Report; letter from League of Women
Voters of New York State Education Foundation, requesting $20,000 to expand Students
Inside Albany program, June 23, 2005,with cover memo from NYSUT executive vice president
Alan Lubin noting that NYSUT had given $10,000, September 9; NYSUT's 2005 Retire Services
Survey Results; memo re release time for staff participating in Hurricane Katrina
relief efforts, September 19
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 81 |
Officers Meeting 9/7/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Board of Directors' meeting agenda for September 17; Executive Committee meeting
agenda for September 16; booklet from National Center for Educational Statistics,
Mobility in the Teacher Workforce: Findings from the Condition of Education 2005;
memo re need for volunteers to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief; proposed timeline
and other materials re 2006 Representative Assembly; proposed program for Thomas Hobart
dedication on September 26; list of retired part-time employees and hourly wages,
January 1, 2004- July 31, 2005; list of NYSUT payments to AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils
as of August 2005; article from Washington Post re two former teachers union officials
convicted of embezzlement, September 1; memo re NYSUT holiday parties, August 26;
request from regional staff director Fred Monaco for contribution of $1500 to Center
for Missing and Exploited Children's Ride for Missing Children, January 12
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 82 |
Officers Meeting 6/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Directory of Board of Directors; materials for AFT Solidarity Fund, NYSUT Solidarity
Fund
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 83 |
Officers Meeting 6/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo re membership cards; survey results for start time for board meetings; annual
estimated per capita for 2005
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 84 |
Officers Meeting 6/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; confidential memo from Office of Counsel to the President re Department of
Labor LM-30 Form update and recommended course of action, June 30; Cabinet Meeting
notes of May 25; memo re AFT financial support, June 21
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 85 |
Officers Meeting 6/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo confirming meeting
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 86 |
Officers Meeting 6/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos re budget reform bills; confidential memo re Political Action Committee appointments;
2005-2006 budget requests for new positions, promotions, and upgrades
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 87 |
Officers Meeting 5/24/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for Executive Committee meeting; confidential memo re Political Action Committee
appointments; list of staff requesting to attend QuEST; proposed 2005 nominations
for Referred Resolutions Committee; list of officers attendance at NYSUT Regional/Statewide
Leadership Conferences, updated 5/11/05
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 88 |
Officers Retreat April 25-27, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Retreat agendas; site information
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 89 |
Officers Meeting 4/19/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo confirming meeting
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 90 |
Officers Meeting 3/8/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for Officers' Advisory Committee meeting; agenda for Executive Committee meeting
of March 13; Maria Neira's talking points re National Colorectal Cancer Awareness
Month; confidential legal memo re bylaws of UNITY Caucus
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 91 |
Officers Meeting 2/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda and revised agenda for Board of Trustees meeting of NYSUT Education and Learning
Trust; minutes of November 23, 2004, meeting; course outlines for "Multiple Intelligence
Strategies" and "Instructional Strategies for the Cooperative Classroom"; memo to
Chuck Santelli from Ro Rosen re Sunguard software proposal, February 7, 2005; description
of items to be discussed by the board, from Ro Rosen; summary of major provisions
of The Schools for New York's Future Act, with school aid chart; Benchmark (NYSUT)
Polling Group results of survey of prime voters statewide re New York State representatives
and issues, conducted January 31 through February 3, 2005; flyer supporting the UNITY
team
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 4/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes of Officers meeting of March 29, 2005; Forbes article re costly, low-quality
retirement plans sold to teachers by AIG-affiliated vendor, April 25, 2005; draft
letter to the editor of Forbes from director of NYSUT Benefit Trust re ING-affiliated
plan, noting satisfaction with it, April 12, 2005; letter from NYSUT president Ianuzzi
to NYSUT members re ING-affiliated Opportunity Plus supplemental retirement savings
plan (tax-deferred variable annuity, TDA); information re filing Form LM-30 with Department
of Labor
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 3/29/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Executive Committee and Board of Directors' meeting agenda for April 7, 2005; notes
of Officers meeting of March 15, 2005; list of officers on UNITY Caucus Nominations
Committee; Subcommittee on Education Report to the General Conference Committee; Senate
and Assembly Higher Education Conference Committee Recommendations; memo to NYSUT
officers re request for new legislative representative position, March 28, 2005; Research
and Educational Services Staff Planning Session Framework; materials re Regents proposal
to increase the passing grade on Regents exams to 65; NYSUT Recommendations re NYS's
Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2005,
with cover letter from vice president Maria Neira to deputy commissioner of Office
of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities, March 28,
2005
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 3/15/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Officers and Associate Meeting 3/1/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes of Officers meeting of January 25, 2005; draft executive summary of
the K-12 Local Presidents' Survey, 2004-05; report of Field & Legal Services, February
28, 2005; summary of NYSUT 2005-06 budget, prepared by the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer;
list of executive salaries for 2005-06; memos re retiree health insurance for management
and confidential staff, January 15 and February 23, 2005
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 1/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes from November 23 and December 21, 2004, Officers' Meetings; State Education
Department press release, "Eleven Schools Placed on SURR List, 19 Removed in New York
City, Yonkers, Buffalo, Syracuse and Hempstead," January 4; draft NYSUT press release,
"New SURR List Shows Progress: Teachers Frustrated by State's Inaction," January 4;
blast e-mail to media, statement by Randi Weingarten calling SURR news bittersweet,
January 4; 2005 Representative Assembly materials, including tentative list of speakers,
proposed resolutions; materials re NYSUT member benefits, auto policy; AFT Guidelines
for Audit Committees, fall 2003; memo re NYSUT-CWA tentative agreement, with salary
steps, January 4
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 11/23/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for Officers' and Associates' meeting, November 23; draft statement of operations
for year ended August 31, 2004; Education and Learning Trust Board of Trustees meeting
agenda, November 23; minutes of September 8 meeting; budget note to Chuck Santelli
from Ro (Rosemarie) Rosen of the Education and Learning Trust, October 26; course
outline and syllabus for proposed new course, Differentiated Instruction: Improving
the ODDS, with cover memo from Ro Rosen, October 27; memo from Ro Rosen re proposed
partnership with the Sage Colleges and Concordia College, with attached financial
arrangement, November 17; NYSUT Cell Phone Policy (addendum to Travel and Expense
Reimbursement Policy), effective 2004
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Officers and Associates Meeting (Canceled) 11/16/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo notifying of cancellation
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 4/13/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for Officers' and Associates' meeting of April 13; agenda and notes from Officers'
meeting of March 18; agenda and notes of Officers' meeting of April 13; NYUSUT Financial
Statements as of February 29, 2004; membership and financial report from Ivan Tiger,
April 12; report on attendance of the 2004 Representative Assembly; list of members
of task force on future of RAs, revised 4/5/04;
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Officers Meeting 3/18/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes of March 2 Officers' meeting; minutes of February 17 Officers' meeting;
special order of business, Response to Secretary of Education Paige's "Terrorist"
Comments, re Bush administration official's remark that National Education Association
was a terrorist organization; New York State Teachers Retirement System Trustee Agreement,
April 6, 1992; tentative agenda for 2004 AFT Super Conference Northeast Regional Meeting
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Officers Meeting 3/2/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; NYSUT letter to AFT re per capita dues from Public Employees Federation, February
20; lists of bargaining units; 2004 Representative Assembly draft general session
tentative speakers and program; interim report on security and civil liberties, to
AFT officers and Executive council, from Democracy Committee, May 2003
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Officers Meeting 2/17/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; draft of certified letter to Hudson Valley Community College, severing joint
sponsorship agreement between NYSUT Education and Learning Trust and college; memos
re per capita dues collection for AFT from Public Employees Federation
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Officers Meeting 1/15/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
NYSUT Constitution and Bylaws, effective April 2003; memo re health insurance for
retirees/managers under current NYSUT policy, January 5, 2004; NYSUT special projects
budget, 2002-2003
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Officers Meeting 1/6/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo re associate member dues; comparison between Regents proposal and NYSUT
Ad Hoc Task Force on School Finance Report; letter requesting sponsorship of Albany
Law School Government Law Center's 2004 Warren M. Anderson Legislative Breakfast Seminar
Series, December 16, 2003
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 9/8/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; materials re CUNY Professional Staff Congress (PSC) request for financial
assistance, September 7; Report of the Task Force on Small and Rural Locals, July
23, 2004; letter from Pauline Kinsella, NYSUT Executive Director of Field and Legal
Services, to president of Professional Staff Association re his concern over number
of management/confidential positions at NYSUT
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 8/2/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; agendas for Executive Committee and Board of Directors' meetings of August
4; notes from Officers' meeting of June 16; recommended procedures for AFT/Kerry presidential
campaign volunteer expense reimbursement; memo re financial statement recording of
dues collected for AFT, August 2; correspondence re theft by one of Port Jefferson
paraprofessionals co-presidents; confidential draft, NYSUT Personnel Committee Principles
re promotions for CWA/PSA/LSA employees, with attached appendix of salary steps
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Officers Retreat June 15-16 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for retreat; list of issues for retreat; agenda for Officers' and Associates'
meeting of June 16; list of Officers' and Associates' meetings for 2004-2005; agenda
and notes from Officers' meeting of June 1; Personnel Committee recommended salary
adjustments; materials re Fundamental Beliefs to Create a Single State Organization,
differences with existing policies of NEA-NY and NYSUT; NYSUT Constitution and Bylaws;
handwritten notes
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 6/1/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda and notes from Officers' meeting of May 19; map of 2002-03 NYS School
Districts Median Teacher Salary Ranges, with report on classroom teacher salaries;
anonymous letter to NYSUT president Tom Hobart re "antics" of president (?) of Syracuse
Teachers Association, May 17; memo re content management/portal expenditure, June
1; estimated costs associated with attending NYS AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention,
August 8-10, 2004; emerging leader accomplishments
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| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 5/19/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agendas for May 19 and 20 meetings; working 2004-05 salary schedule; memo to Tom Hobart
re 2004-2005 budget, May 10; handwritten notes from May 11 budget meeting; typed notes
from 5/11 budget meeting with officers; brochure from the Eleanor Roosevelt Center
at Val-Kill (Hyde Park, NY), with memo re NYSUT contribution, May 13; Peter D. Hart
Research Associates survey results re public opinion of state of education, taxes,
perception of teachers, April/May 2004; memo from NYSUT legal counsel re Appellate
Division decision re duty to fairly represent retirees in Baker et al. v. Hoosick
Falls Central School District et al., recommending settlement, May 17
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| Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 5/19/04 2005 Budget Draft
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
NYSUT 2004-2005 Budget officers' presentation, June 1, 2004; NYSUT Building Corporation
Annual Report, June 10, 2004; budget drafts; summary of major changes version #1 to
version #2; major equipment request schedule; list of special projects; committee
budget lines; management/confidential salary adjustments per 5/11/04 Officers' Meeting;
notes from 5/11 budget meeting with officers (accounting notes as of 5/19); additional
areas to consider for potential cost containment
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| Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Officers Meeting 4/26/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; proposed new procedure for Associate Member Program, effective September 1,
2004; agenda and notes of Officers' meeting of April 13; memo from NYSUT president
Tom Hobart to Board of Directors re NEA-NY convention's approval of "sanitized" unity
resolution that left unresolved a list of issues that had traditionally divided NYSUT
and NEA, April 26, 2005
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| Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Officers Retreat October 19-20, 2004
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Confidential draft notes
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| Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 12/21/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda for NYSUT Policy Council meeting, January 12, 2005; memo re AFT financial
support, with attached Rationale for the Continuance of AFT Technology Support in
New York, November 12; memo to officers re private higher education faculty Associate
Membership Program, December 15; NYSU travel and expense reimbursement policy, effective
2004; policy sheet re press releases; list of possible 2005 Representative Assembly
Resolutions Committee chairs and vice chairs, December 21; materials re charter school
test data, December 20
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| Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Officers Meeting 12/07/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; summary sheet, 2005 NYSUT Campaign and Election Procedures; materials from
2004 NYSUT Board retreat, October 29-31; list of recipients of Albert Shanker Award
for Distinguished Service; NYSUT Constitution and Bylaws, effective March 2004; Davis
Vision/Wal-mart Update, outlining options for possible switch from optical provider
who distributed at Wal-Mart, with responses to informal Request for Information
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| Box 6 | Folder 24 |
Officers Meeting 11/23/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; proposed management meeting structure; unsupportive letter to AFT president
ED McElroy from NEA president Reg Weaver re possible merger/affiliation arrangement,
November 18, 2004; officer Transition Policy after a Successor is Elected and Installed,
11/23/04
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| Box 6 | Folder 25 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 11/02/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re meeting time with "cancelled" notation
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| Box 6 | Folder 26 |
New Officers Gathering 10/8/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memos re meeting time
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| Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Officers and Associates Meeting 10/5/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda for Administrative Committee meeting; presentation sheets re new LM-2
reporting requirements
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| Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Officers Meeting 10/03/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; NYSUT Retiree Fund 2005-05 Budget; job description for retiree services consultant;
related materials; memo re Education Summit 2005; memo from Maria Neira re gaps in
committee appointments, with spreadsheet; memo re miscellaneous headquarters items,
re Sandra Feldman memorial, Founders' Room, September 30; memo from NYSUT general
counsel James Sandner, recommending declining to represent case of probationary teacher,
now resigned, charged with several counts of sexual misconduct with a child, September
27; letter from Greenburgh Eleven Federation of Teachers to NYSUT president Richard
Ianuzzi
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| Box 6 | Folder 29 |
Officers Meeting 9/29/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo confirming meeting date; notes form Officers' meeting of September 8
|
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Opportunity Plus see ING Life Insurance
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 30 |
Para Festival (UFT) 2/12/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter to Maria Neira inviting her to awards ceremony honoring outstanding paraprofessionals
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Paras New Certification Requirements 2002-2005
|
2002-2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter from NYSUT Education and Learning Trust re Paraprofessional Education Program:
Pathway to a Career in Education, August 10, 2005, with attached document; text of
bill introduced by Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY), Paraprofessionals in the Classroom Act
of 2005, with fax cover from congressional office, January 10, 2005, and memo to Maria
Neira summarizing legislation, February 8, 2005; UFT newsletter, ParaScope, fall 2004;
NYSUT Information Bulletin re new certification requirements for teaching assistants,
January 2003; text of Schools for New York's Future Act; U.S. Department of Education
Draft Non-Regulatory Guidance re Title I Paraprofessionals under No Child Left Behind,
November 15, 2002
|
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Paraprofessionals see AFT Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel Conference
|
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Parent-Teacher Conferences see Radio Ad
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| Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Personnel Committee Meeting and Materials
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memo re meeting, noting planned review of recommendations for promotions, with guidelines,
May 3, 2005
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| Box 6 | Folder 33 |
Policy/ PR Campaign Meeting 12/12/05
|
2005 |
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Scope and Contents
List of Policy Council planned meetings for 2005-2006, with major topics to be discussed;
message from Maria Neira to Policy Council members on listserv; Procedure for Expiring
Resolutions; memo to Research and Educational Services managers from Chuck Santelli
re "to-do" list from Executive Council and Board of Directors meetings, 12/12/05
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 34 |
NYSUT Policy Council Members
|
2005-2008 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of members with e-mail and street addresses, district affiliations
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 35 |
NYSUT Policy Council Meeting 10/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo re 2005-06 Policy Council meetings; memo re topics for discussion at October
12 meeting. See also AFT Teachers Program and Policy Council
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| Box 6 | Folder 36 |
NYSUT Policy Council Meeting 1/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of attendees; list of those not attending or responding; draft 2004-
05 K-12 Local Presidents' Survey Summary; survey overview; survey possible discussion
points; materials from State Education Department re assessment review and action
on student performance, January 6; related memos
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 37 |
NYSUT Policy Council Meeting 11/8/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of upcoming meetings; memo from Maria Neira re State Education Department's
latest middle-level proposal, September 24, 2004; letter from Neira to Chancellor
Bennett, expressing concern over latest middle-level proposal, October 28, 2004; related
materials; questions on grades 3-8 standards & assessments; list of Policy Council
members; flowchart, New York State Education Department Examination Development Process;
NYSUT Research and Educational Services report, "Assessments in New York State: List
of tests students in New York face as they progress from kindergarten through public
higher education," October 2004; presentation sheets, Current Issues and Future Directions
for Testing, Assessment and Accountability, by Howard J. Goldsmith, coordinator of
operations, NYSED Office of State Assessment; description of State Education Department
Mathematics Standards Committee; list of contract expirations, 2002-04; draft document
re alternative compensation plans; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 38 |
NYSUT Policy Council Meeting 4/21/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; notes from January 7, 2004, meeting; report of the First Vice President, for
Executive Committee, April 15; materials re middle-level options; NYSUT report, Explosion
of Excellence: The education revolution no one is talking about, March 2004; state
fiscal policy recommendations, "There's Still a Better Choice," by NYSUT Committee
of 100; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 39 |
Policy Issues Ann Cook Meeting 01/7/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos arranging a meeting; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 40 |
Post-Election Summary 11/11/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo from NYSUT executive vice president Alan Lubin to NYSUT Board of Directors, officers,
and staff, analyzing results of presidential, congressional, and state legislative
races, efforts of NYSUT volunteers, with attached NYSUT flyers for Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry. See also Kerry
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| Box 6 | Folder 41 |
Practitioners Advisory Panel January-February 2003
|
2003 |
|
Scope and Contents
List of assessment committee members; summary of initial meeting, February 3; State
Education Department Information for Practitioners' Advisory Panel Discussion, with
handwritten notations
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 42 |
Practitioners Panel on Testing 3/12/03
|
2003 |
|
Scope and Contents
Summary of January 30, 2003, meeting; letter to NYSUT first vice president Antonia
Cortese from State Education Department assistant commissioner, describing the advisory
panel's assignment, January 3, 2003; NYSUT Feedback Form for Comments Regarding SED's
Practitioners' Advisory Panel on Grades 3-8 Testing, with cover letter from NYSUT
vice president Cortese to participant, February 10, 2003; filled-out form from another
participant; Request for Proposal from State Education Department for State Assessment
in Elementary and Intermediate (Middle) Level English Language Arts and Mathematics
(scoring proposals); handwritten notes
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 43 |
Professional Development Educational Issues: Video Conference 5/26, 5/31, 6/01 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
NYSUT Educational Services list of topics and issues for videoconference briefing
to NYSUT regional offices, May 26, 31, and June 1, 2005; revised announcement, Critical
Issues Briefing: Educational Issues Videoconference
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 44 |
Professional Development Meeting 9/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos arranging a time for the meeting; State Education Department document to superintendents
of selected school districts re Title IIA and Professional Development Plan Monitoring,
September 28, 2004; paper, School Variation and Systemic Instructional Improvement
in Community School District #2, New York City, by Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney,
October 1997; earlier version, August 1997
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 45 |
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB) Meetings 9/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for breakfast meeting; agenda for full day's meeting; list of attendees; list
of issues re mentoring; comparison of the Teaching Commission report recommendations
and NYS initiatives to date (draft) re improving state licensing and certification
requirements, more authority to principals; draft proposal re performance assessment
of teaching skills, 9/12
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 46 |
PSPB March 23-24, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Materials re legislative (lobbying) visits
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 47 |
PSPB 6/2/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; draft minutes of March 23-24, 2005, meeting; memo re proposed certification
regulations; draft of letter, with handwritten edits, to deputy education commissioner
Johanna Duncan-Poitier, re teacher mentoring program, May 25; document, Recruiting
and Retaining Quality Teachers in High Need Districts: A discussion and recommendation
presented by the Professional Standards and Practices Board for teaching; list of
PSPB members; executive summary of State Education Department Educational Leadership
Certification Regulation, Goal 3, April 29
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 48 |
PSPB 3/23/2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; May meeting agenda; draft minutes of January 20-21 meeting; paper for Education
Policy Archives, "Catching Up With the Vaughn Express: Six Years of Standards-Based
Teaching Evaluation and Performance Pay," by Eileen M. Kellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
January 23, 2005; NYSUT Information Bulletin, "The Role of Mentor in District-Based
Mentoring Programs," March 2005; document, Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs
in New York State 2003-2004 Highlights, February 7, 2005 (statistics, charts and graphs);
draft, Empire Promise Teacher Opportunity Corps
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 49 |
PSPB January 20-21, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Minutes of October 14-15 and November 18-19, 2004, meetings; booklet by National Education
Association, Teacher Quality: Moving Forward (A Dialogue with the Teaching Commission:
Teaching At Risk: A Call to Action), June 2004; memo to the Board of Regents from
deputy education commissioner Johanna Duncan-Poitier re update on Educational Leadership
Initiative, Goal 3, January 3, 2005; memo to Johanna Duncan-Poitier from NYSUT vice
president Maria Neira re performance-based modifications re faculty staffing in teacher
education programs, January 20, 2005; report, "Keeping Quality Teachers; The Art of
Retaining General and Special Education Teachers: A Practical Guide for School Leaders
Held Accountable for Student Success," 2004
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 50 |
PSPB November 18-19, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for PSPB Teacher Meeting; materials on 2004 legislative activity, how to lobby
in 2005; NYSUT review and comment on State Education Department Draft Rubric for Assessing
District Teacher Mentoring Programs 11/15/04; SED Office of School Personnel Review
and Accountability Annual Part 83 Report, November 18, 2004; SED Report of the Mathematics
Standards Committee, October 27, 2005; materials for nomination of 2006 New York State
Teacher of the Year; draft document, Assessing the Development of Your District Teacher
Mentoring Program, NY State Education Department Office of Teaching Initiatives, fall
2004
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 51 |
Peer Intervention Program
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Bound final report
|
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|
Public Schools see also Rise of Mass Public Schooling before 1914
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 52 |
Public Schools for the 21st Century (PS21) Honor Roll Photo Exhibit 10/21/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation to event
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
RMC Research Corporation
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from Deputy Commissioner of Education James Kadamus to Maria Neira re RMC Research
Corporation contract from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a regional
center to help school districts meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001, inviting Neira to nominate two classroom teachers to be members of advisory
board, January 30, 2006; memo with names of teachers to serve on advisory board
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Radio Ad 10/18/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Script for public-service announcement for Maria Neira, urging parents to come to
parent-teacher conferences
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Regents Candidates 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Resumes of candidates David Ochoa and Howard M. Koenig, with cover letter from NYSUT
president Richard Ianuzzi to Maria Neira indicating interest in Koenig, and related
materials
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Regents Interviews 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Questions by interview panel to Regent candidates; resumes of candidates Roger Bruce
Tilles and Charles W. Fowler, with letter to NYSUT executive vice president Alan Lubin
from president of the Nassau BOCES Central Council of Teachers (NABCOT), noting nomination
of Fowler by Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, concurring with recommendation
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Regional Offices At-Large Directors Meeting 6/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Spreadsheet re costs to bring regional staff to NYSUT headquarters for meeting
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Regional Offices Capital District Regional Office Presidents Conference 2/3/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; agenda
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Regional Offices Capital District Regional Office Staff Meeting 10/21/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; handwritten notes
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Regional Offices Capital District Regional Office (CDRO) Regional Action Program (RAP)
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Summary of Regional Action Program; 2004-2005 RAP Activities for Cambridge, Averill
Park, North Warren, Mohonasen, and Hadley-Luzerne teachers associations; list of participating
teacher associations; cover memo to Executive Director for Field and Legal Services
Pauline Kinsella, re CDRO staff assessments, year 3, April 4, 2005; description of
Mohonasen Teachers Association Action Plan (MAP), with attached Action Plan Calendar
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Regional Offices Herkimer County Teachers Council Dinner 11/10/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; invitation to dinner; memo from Executive
Vice President Antonia Cortese, soliciting recommendations for alternative compliance
options and sanctions under Annual Yearly Progress requirement under No Child Left
Behind, October 25; NYSUT press release praising SUNY Board of Trustees
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Regional Offices Nassau County 12/14/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; NYSUT press release re "great victory"
in Campaign for Fiscal Equity
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Regional Offices Nassau Regional Office 11/30/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Materials re meeting between Maria Neira and Mike Margolis
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Regional Offices North Colonie TA 5/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter from North Colonie Teachers Association congratulating Maria Neira for election
as First Vice President, inviting her to attend next meeting, with handwritten "yes"
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Regional Offices Southern Tier Regional Office (STRO) Spring Leadership Conference
3/17/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; program, for event; letter from AFT to
all U.S. Senators, protesting record $3.5 billion cut in education funding in Bush
administration FY 2007 budget, bringing to $55.7 billion the shortfall from what was
promised for No Child Left Behind in the three years since the law was enacted, March
14; letter from AFT to U.S. Senators in support of amendment to increase Title I funding
for FY 2007, noting cumulative gap of $40.3 billion (through FY 2006) between authorized
and appropriated funding, March 15; agenda for NYSUT Education and Learning Trust
training workshop, "Promoting Literacy for ELLs [English Language Learners, aka non-native
speakers] at All Levels: A Training of the Trainers," March 18; State Education Department
reports, "Overview of District Performance in English Language Arts, Mathematics,
and Science and Analysis of Student Subgroup Performance for Sharon Springs Central
School District," February 2005, "Accountability Status Report: English Language Arts,
Mathematics, Science, and Graduation Rate for Sharon Springs CSD: 2004-05 Accountability
Status: District in Need of Improvement Year 1 for English Language Arts," and Secondary-Level
English Language Arts, March 6, 2006; newspaper clipping re sample questions appearing
on state standardized math exam, lack of explanation for error, March 16, 2006
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Regional Offices Southern Tier Leadership Conference August 23-25, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda and materials for conference topic, "Employee Disciplinary Due Process Rights";
remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Regional Offices Suffolk Leadership Conference 1/21/06
|
2006 |
|
Scope and Contents
Facilitative correspondence
|
|||
| Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Regional Offices Suffolk County Directors Meeting 10/25/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; report by Neira; materials re
Labor-Religion Coalition
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Regional Offices Suffolk Regional Office 11/30/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos re visit by Maria Neira
|
|||
| Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Regional Offices Suffolk County 11/29/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; press release, "NYSUT Honors New York's
XXX New Nationally Certified Teachers"; memo re meeting and agenda
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Regional Offices Syracuse Regional Office Workshop November 12-13, 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; agenda; workshop participant list;
list of VOTE/COPE (political action) contributions by local
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Regional Offices Ulster County Newly Tenured Teachers Reception 10/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira; edited draft
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 21 |
Regional Offices Utica Regional Office Educational Conference 11/12/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; evaluation form; handwritten opening remarks
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 22 |
Regional Offices Watertown New Member Regional Workshop 10/27/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Remarks by First Vice President Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 23 |
Regional Offices Western NY Winter Leadership Conference 3/11/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Facilitative correspondence
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 24 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 12/19/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; proposal from Thirteen/WNET for event, The Celebration of Teaching and Learning;
list of potential 2006 RA resolutions; resolution re state support for higher education
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 25 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 11/21/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of planned meetings and discussion items for future NYSUT Policy Council,
2005-06; October Research Department manager's report; October Educational Services
Department manager's report; School Finance and Policy Development progress report
for October 2005
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 26 |
Research and Educational Services Staff Meeting 11/18/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; recommendations of Summer 2005 Planning Committee, August 17
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 27 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 11/07/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; NYSU Information Bulletin re Classroom Teacher Salaries 2003-04
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 28 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 10/24/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 29 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 10/11/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; 2006-07 Regents State Aid Proposal; list of responsibilities of NYSUT committees
and task forces, staff
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 30 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 9/26/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; agenda for NYSUT Policy Council meeting of October 12; related memo from Maria
Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 31 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 9/12/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; overview summary of June 2005 Regents telephone surveys; agenda for Pre-COP
meeting of September 14
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 32 |
Research and Educational Services Staff Meeting 9/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; recommendations of 2005 Summer Planning Committee, September 6
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 33 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 6/28/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Protocol for Resolving Disputes between Local Teacher's (sic) Union and Local
School Districts Regarding Educational Programs Required by Statute, Regulation or
Bargaining
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 34 |
Research and Educational Services Staff Meeting 6/14/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Summary of planning process for report by first vice president
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 35 |
Research and Educational Services 6/6/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; Final Report to the NYSUT Working Committee on Web Redesign, by CMS Watch,
May 20
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 36 |
Research and Educational Services Staff Planning Committee 5/31/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re setting up meeting; list of participant feedback from staff planning
session
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 37 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 5/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; 2005 committee nominations; letter of resignation for Policy Council member
Donald Luisi; State Education Department report to Regents for discussion, "Policy
Review of Early Childhood Education," February 23; letter from NYSUT president Richard
Ianuzzi re support for UFT rally in Madison Square Garden on June 2
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 38 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 5/2/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; program for New Local Presidents' Conference
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 39 |
Research and Educational Services 4/18/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
New Board Orientation program, May 23; summary of public opinion research survey by
Peter D. Hart Research Associates
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 40 |
Research and Educational Services 4/4/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo re computer installation
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 41 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 2/22/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; NYSUT Information Bulletin re Role of the Union in Educational Programs
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 42 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 2/10/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; January Research Department manager's report; January Educational Services
Department manager's report; January monthly report of the Education and Learning
Trust; School Finance and Policy Development Progress Report for January 2005; list
of districts in need of improvement under Title I based on performance in 2003-04
school year; Education Daily highlights of President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget request;
brochure by New York State Council of School Superintendents re workshop Assessments
for Learning, March 31
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 43 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 1/19/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 44 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 12/20/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo re retreat; NYSUT Policy Council agenda for January 12, 2004
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 45 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 12/7/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo to NYSUT Board of Directors from Maria Neira re summary of major issues
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 46 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 11/23/04
|
2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; memo to local presidents from Maria Neira re NYSUT- Staples Partnership grant
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| Box 7 | Folder 47 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 11/11/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; NYSUT Information Bulletin, "Report in the NYSUT Questionnaire for Presidents
of Elementary and Secondary Teacher Locals, 2000-2001"; 2000-2001 Local Presidents'
Phone Survey, January 2001; AFT QUEST workshop proposals; Toni Cortese Retirement
List (programs and committees); Comments for SED Revisited Math Standards Survey
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| Box 7 | Folder 48 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 10/27/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda
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| Box 7 | Folder 49 |
Research and Educational Services Staff Meeting 10/22/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; list of those absent and reasons for not attending; handwritten notes re Kerry
campaign
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| Box 7 | Folder 50 |
Research and Educational Services Meeting 10/12/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
September Educational Services Department manager's report; September Research Department
manager's report; September monthly report for the Education and Learning Trust; School
Finance and Policy Development Progress Report for September 2004
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| Box 7 | Folder 51 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 5/21/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; 2004 Local Presidents Conference summary of evaluations; NYSUT Committees
2004-05 Budget; NYSUT Research & Educational Services Staffing list
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| Box 7 | Folder 52 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting February 11-13, 2004
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; January Educational Services Department manager's report; January Research
Department manager's report; January monthly report for the Education and Learning
Trust; School Finance and Policy Development Progress Report for January 2004
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| Box 7 | Folder 53 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 11/10/03
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2003 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; October Educational Services Department manager's report; October Research
Department manager's report; October monthly report for the Education and Learning
Trust; School Finance and Policy Development Progress Report for October 2003
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| Box 7 | Folder 54 |
Research and Educational Services Managers Meeting 10/27/03
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2003 |
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Scope and Contents
Agenda; October Educational Services Department manager's report; September Research
Department manager's report; September monthly report for the ETP; School Finance
and Policy Development Progress Report for September 2003
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| Box 7 | Folder 55 |
Retirement Events Jane Conetta Retirement Party 6/4/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to dinner event honoring retiring Board of Directors member
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| Box 7 | Folder 56 |
Retirement Events Toni Cortese Retirement Party 1/28/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to event honoring AFT Executive Vice President Antonia Cortese
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| Box 7 | Folder 57 |
Retirement Events Hobart Building Dedication 9/16/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to event
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| Box 7 | Folder 58 |
Retirement Events Hobart Building Dedication Meeting 5/12/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Memos re meeting
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| Box 7 | Folder 59 |
Retirement Events Tom Hobart Long Island Tribute 3/18/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation from Syosset Teachers' Association to event honoring retiring NYSUT president
Tom Hobart
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| Box 7 | Folder 60 |
Retirement Events Tony McCanns Retirement 6/22/06
|
2006 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to event honoring retiring teacher
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| Box 7 | Folder 61 |
Retirement Events Stanley Rosengarten / Joseph Dixon Retirement Dinner 11/10/04
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2004 |
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Scope and Contents
Invitation to event honoring Stanley Rosengarten and Joseph Dixon
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| Box 7 | Folder 62 |
Retirement Legislation Passed Both Houses
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Spreadsheet of NYSUT-supported legislation affecting NYS retirement plans
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| Box 7 | Folder 63 |
The Rise of Mass Public Schooling before 1914 5/31/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Copy of book chapter
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| Box 7 | Folder 64 |
School Without Walls 9/14/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Letter to Maria Neira from principal of School Without Walls, requesting a telephone
conversation re Regents policy on NY consortium schools, September 14, 2005
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| Box 7 | Folder 65 |
Carol Slotkin Conference Call 5/9/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence with president of Sullivan West District local re difficult new superintendent,
layoffs, with attached statement by Slotkin, The State of Our Union Pursuing Excellence
is Union Work, April 26. See also ED 13 Mid-Hudson
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| Box 7 | Folder 66 |
Social Security Interview 3/21/05
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Questions and answers by Maria Neira re Bush plan to privatize/eliminate Social Security
program
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| Box 7 | Folder 67 |
Social Security Privatization
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2005 |
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Scope and Contents
Questions and answers for Maria Neira re Social Security privatization; AFL-CIO flyers,
"What Is Social Security?", "What You Should Know about Social Security Privatization,"
"Don't Believe the Spin," "What Privatizing Social Security Would Mean for Women,"
"What Social Security Privatization Would Mean to Young Workers," "What Privatizing
Social Security Would Mean for African Americans," "What Social Security Privatization
Would Mean for Latinos," "What Privatizing Social Security Would Mean for Public Employees,"
"What Privatizing Social Security Would Mean for Manufacturing Workers"
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| Box 7 | Folder 68 |
Social Workers
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2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos between Maria Neira and staff re draft reply to letter from social worker Steven
Press about relationship between NYSUT and New York State School Social Workers Association,
other issues
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| Box 7 | Folder 69 |
Staples Partnership Grant Karen Smith
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Confidential memo re investigation of Smith and Staples grant funds, September 16,
2005; end-of-project final report re Student of the Month Enrichment Program, by Karen
Smith, September 1, 2005; letter to NYSUT executive assistant from City of New York
Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District, requesting
copy of cancelled check issued to Karen Smith, August 8, 2005; grant application from
Karen Smith; related memos
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State Education Department see Commissioner Mills
; see also Johanna Duncan-Poitier
; see also James Kadamus
; see also Mathematics Standards Committee
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 70 |
Summer Intern Program
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo re NYSUT sponsorship of Summer Intern Program for Undergraduate and Graduate
students, primarily intended for children of NYSUT staff and activists
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 71 |
Supplemental Educational Services 2/23/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re meeting; handwritten notes
|
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Teacher Aides see Para
; see also AFT Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel Conference
|
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| Box 7 |
Teacher Awards see Disney Teacher Awards
|
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Teachers Program and Policy Council see AFT Teachers Program and Policy Council
|
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Teaching Assistants see Para
; see also AFT Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel Conference
|
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Ron Thorpe see Widmeyer Communications
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 72 |
Two Together
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo to Pauline Kinsella, executive director of Field & Legal Services, describing
Two Together, an after-school tutoring program in the Capital Region supporting literacy
and language skills among elementary school children in Albany's South End, noting
that regional staff director Linda Stanczik had been appointed to its Board of Directors.
See also Capital Area Labor of Love
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| Box 7 | Folder 73 |
Two Together Giffen School 04/22/07
|
2007 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memo re "Cooks for Kids" event at Giffen School for after-school mentoring and tutoring
program
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 74 |
UUP Meeting 06/13/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Letter to NYSUT vice president Maria Neira from William Scheuerman, president, United
University Professions
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 75 |
USNY (University of the State of New York) Summit on New York Education 11/2/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Invitation to attend Summit on New York Education sponsored by the University of the
State of New York and the Board of Regents, with attached confidential background
and talking points, October 20; expected attendance list; agenda; Call for a Summit
on New York Education; document, The Aims of the University: How Are We Doing Now?;
presentation sheets re early childhood, key issues to close the performance gap; handwritten
notes
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 76 |
USNY Summit Regional Conversation 4/29/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agenda for USNY Summit Glens Falls Regional Conversation; letters to Maria Neira and
Charles Santelli from Education Commissioner Richard Mills, thanking them for accepting
invitation to attend, noting enclosed background papers
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 77 |
USNY Summit Regional Meetings 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Agendas for meetings in Rochester, Syracuse, Long Island, Glens Falls, Hudson Valley,
and NYC; related memo
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 78 |
Vice Presidents Report December 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 79 |
Vice Presidents Report November 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 80 |
Vice Presidents Report September 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 81 |
Vice Presidents Report May 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 82 |
Vice Presidents Report February 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 83 |
Vice Presidents Report January 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 84 |
Vice Presidents Report December 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 85 |
Vice Presidents Report November 2004
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Report by Maria Neira
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 86 |
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices 11/17/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Flyer invitation to film preview, dinner, and reception at NYSUT headquarters
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 87 |
Welcome to Kindergarten Debra Wing 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Preview material and order form for book Welcome to Kindergarten; correspondence between
Maria Neira and author and kindergarten teacher Debra Wing
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 88 |
Women of Color Union Leaders: Niki Dickerson Phone Interview 11/18/05
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to arrange interview between NYSUT vice president Maria Neira and Niki
Dickerson, author of a book chapter on black and Latina women in the labor movement
|
|||
| Box 7 | Folder 89 |
Widmeyer Communications Ron Thorpe Celebration of Learning December 13, 2005
|
2005 |
|
Scope and Contents
Memos re meeting
|
|||
|
Youth see Campaign for Youth
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 90 |
John Zimmerman, Buchbinder Tunick and Company Meeting with Auditor 12/9/04
|
2004 |
|
Scope and Contents
Draft consolidated financial statements, December 8, 2004; memo re meeting with John
Zimmerman, outside auditor with Buchbinder Tunick & Co. to present overview of audit
process
|
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