NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services Files., 1960-1998
Collection Number: 6174/003

Report, "Progress and Prospects: The State of the Association," 1970; "Standards and Evaluative Criteria for the Accreditation of Teacher Education," December 1967; list of officers and committees, 1972; program for leadership institute, 1974; description of association, c. 1972; publication lists; correspondence

November 9-10, 1981. Conference program, "A Design for a School of Pedagogy"; book of the same name, published by U.S. Department of Education, 1980; draft document by U.S. Department of Education, "Questions and Answers Concerning the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981," chapters 1 and 2, October 1981; proposed implementation timeline for chapter 2; list of members of AACTE Executive Board; handwritten notes

Report (mostly sardonic commentary) on the 59th annual meeting of AAUP, April 27-28, 1973, as observed by an NEA organizer, with cover letter from National Education Association director of Higher Education Program; summary of new AAUP contract provisions for salary determination, May 15, 1973; tally of active members by college campus, SUNY and CUNY, May 4, 1977

Salary study compiled by SUNY central administration, 1970; comptroller's opinion re professional staff salaries as public information, January 13, 1972; other statistical data

February 14-17, 1994. Printed convention resolutions; program

Proposed constitutional amendments

December 16, 1992. Convention questionnaire

August 11-16, 1992. Report of Futures Committee; press releases; related materials

July 2-5, 1990. Special order of business: Children in Crisis in Urban Schools; press releases

Printed convention resolutions; booklet, "Teachers under Dictatorship," a project of the AFT; conference report by United University Professions Task Force on Teacher education, "Colleagues in Reform"; related materials

August 10, 1992. Talking points and background on the report of the AFT Futures Committee; proposed resolutions; agenda

November 16-20, 1992. Draft list of AFT priorities for national legislation and union goals; convention questionnaire; handwritten notes

List of AFT Executive Council committees and members 1992-94; budget proposal and financial statement, April 30, 1992; resolution for joint organizing coalition, State of Kentucky State Employee Organizing Campaign; draft policy paper, U.S. Education: The Task before Us; draft for discussion on incentives and accountability; other discussion papers; questionnaire re role of Executive Council in union; highlights of AFT national focus groups, by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, winter 1991; printed report by DGB (German trade union federation) and AFL-CIO, "German-American Trade Union Solidarity in the Struggle against Fascism: 1933-1945: How the American trade unions helped their persecuted German colleagues," April 1985

June 2-3, 1992. California constitutional amendment, The Parental Choice in Education Initiative, November 19, 1991; resolution re universal pension coverage; resolution, "Toward World-Class Standards: Preparing Tomorrow's Workforce"; fact sheets re health care expenditures, reform proposals

February 11-12, 1992. Chart of AFT funding proposals; memo proposing a national program to address the needs of children in crisis, January 30, 1992; handwritten notes

October 22-23, 1991. Memo re special meeting of the Education and Research Committee of the Executive Council, October 22, 1991; Executive Council survey results in graph format; sample of one filled-out survey, October 1991; draft discussion paper, Preliminary Recommendations of the AFT Futures Committee, September 24, 1991, with cover memo

November 19, 1992. Report and proposal, "Democracy's Untold Story: What World History Textbooks Neglect," by Paul A. Gagnon, sponsored by the Education for Democracy Project, published by American Federation of Teachers; press releases, newspaper clippings, and related materials

May 1-3, 1981. Conference program brochure; sample of contract language on school discipline; sample discipline codes from state departments of education; resource paper on student crime, "Rights and Regulations: Who's Keeping Discipline in the Schools?" May 3, 1981; article reprint from the Public Interest, "Crime in American Public Schools," winter 1980

April 8-10, 1983. Conference program brochure; resource papers on a variety of issues; Report of the 65th Annual Convention of the American Federation of Teachers, July 6-9, 1981; AFT issues papers: "Standards, Curriculum and Testing," "Student Discipline," "Teacher Preparation and Certification," "Elementary and Secondary Teacher Evaluation," "Teacher recruitment and Early career incentives";

Routine correspondence

January 1-18, 1987. Program for training conference, "School Reform: Realizing the Vision," 1987; Report of the AFT Task Force on the Future of Education, "The Revolution That is Overdue," 1986; AFT research report, "Collective Bargaining and Education Reform, January 16, 1987; correspondence; handwritten notes

July 30 - August 2, 1987. Tentative program brochure; paper presented by Bob Pearlman, Boston Teachers Union, "National Situation Report: Summary of United States/AFT Report on Utilization of New Information Technologies in U.S. Schools"; "The Dutch NIVO Project: the New Computer Approach in Secondary Education"; "Computers in the French School System"; "Report of the Trade Unions for Education and Science in the Federal Republic of Germany to the Conference of IFFTU Industrialised Nation Affiliates on 'New Technologies in Education'"; related materials

April 23-26, 1973. AFT QuEST (Quality Educational Standards in Teaching) Consortium Yearbook April 23-26, 1973. 1972; AFT QuEST Resource Notebook April 23-26, 1973

Publication for AFT QuEST Consortium on Educational Policy, April 3-5, 1972; occasional papers

Special order of business submitted by the Executive Council, "The Revolution That Is Overdue: Looking Toward the Future of Teaching and Learning," a report of the AFT Task Force on the Future of Education; memos

NYSUT memo reporting on actions of Task Force on Academic Freedom, September 28, 1989; minutes of December 9-10, 1988, meeting; task force Statement of Principles; correspondence

Newspaper clippings from New York Times and Wall Street Journal

"Problems in Using Pupil Outcomes for Teacher Evaluation," National Education Association, April 1975; address by Samuel P. Martin, M.D., at the October 1975 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility, "A Conceptual Look at the Role of the U.S. Commissioner of Education's Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility"; American Optometric Association Report to the House of Delegates, Council on Optometric Education, June 1, 1976; materials by Cooperative Accountability Project, including Survey on Educational Accountability for the Michigan State Department of Education, May 1974.

Brochure, "What Parents Should Know about Accountability!" by National Education Association (NEA); NEA memos; NEA paper, Criteria for Evaluating State Education Accountability Systems; paper, "An Assessment of the Michigan Accountability System," prepared for NEA and Michigan Education Association; paper, "A Response to the Michigan Education Department's Defense of Their Accountability System," August 27, 1974; presentation to the 1974 New Jersey Education Association Convention on Accountability and Teacher Evaluation; paper, "Accountability in Education," by James G. Ward, for Dr. David Axelrod

Materials for Denver Accountability Conference, 1973; internal draft by Educational Testing Service, "An Accountability Design for School Systems," June 1973; State of Florida, Articles on Educational Accountability in Universal English, revised February 1973

Printed publications: Striving Toward Dialogue: A National Forum on Educational Accountability (produced by Cooperative Accountability Project in cooperation with NEA and AFT), Colorado Department of Education; Accounting for Accountability, Cooperative Accountability Project, Denver CO; Who's Afraid of Educational Accountability? Cooperative Accountability Project, Denver CO; Condition Variables in Relation to Measured Student Performance: The Use of Indicators in Pennsylvania, Cooperative Accountability Project, Denver CO; State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR): A Program of the Cooperative Accountability Project, newsletter of the Cooperative Accountability Project, CAP Commentary, vol. 1, nos. 1, 3, 5, March, November 1974, September 1975; 1974 AFT convention resolution re accountability; remarks of Hon. Albert H. Quie, M.C., "Accountability and the Federal Interest in Education," before a conference of the Cooperative Accountability Project, January 31, 1975; agenda for a national forum on educational accountability, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and administered by the Cooperative Accountability Project, May 8-9, 1975

May 18-19, 1975. Correspondence; printed publications: Keeping the Public Informed: Accent on Accountability; Cooperative Public Accountability Project: Roles of Participants in Educational Accountability; Cooperative Public Accountability Project: Legislation by the States: Accountability and Assessment in Education; Report and Recommendations of the MEA Task Force on Assessment and Accountability, March 1974; A Staff Response to the Report: An Assessment of the Michigan Accountability System, Michigan Department of Education, May 1974

Program agenda for National Forum on Educational Accountability; description of sponsors; Market Opinion Research report, "Survey on Educational Accountability for the Michigan State Department of Education" (stamped "Cooperative Accountability Project, Colorado Department of Education"), May 1974; topic papers for National Forum on Educational Accountability: "Goals and Objectives," "Assessment and Evaluation," and "Who Should Be Accountable to Whom and for What?"; speech delivered at National Forum by L. Wendell Rivers, Ph.D., "Psychoeducational Testing: The End of a Controversy?"; article reprints; list of participants

Draft of legislation, Education Accountability Act; letters from Commissioner Sobol to the Board of Regents, outlining details of accountability program, requiring schools to develop five-year plans, annual reports on student achievement by race, independent reviews, and state intervention in underperforming schools

June 12, 1990. Descriptions of program; correspondence; status report, May 1990.

Correspondence as above

Report, "Community Education in the 1980's: The New York Agenda," Division of Continuing Education, May 13, 1981; related correspondence

List of locals to receive mailing; reply card from network contact person; cover letter from vp Antonia Cortese

June 2, 1981. Report by the State Education Commissioner's Advisory Council on Adult Learning Services, "Setting the Goals for the Future of Adult Learning in New York State: Background Paper for Regional Forums on Lifelong Learning," September 1980; summary of legislative bills; Testimony for New York State Assembly Committee on Higher education, "TAP for the Part-Time Student," by Dr. Robert E. Pennock, chairman, Association for Continuing Higher Education, Region II, November 21, 1978; Statement by Dr. Irwin H. Polishook, president, Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, Adult Learning Bills before the Board of Regents, January 29, 1981

January 29, 1981. Text of Memorandum in Support of "An Act to Amend the Education Law in Relation to Removing the Age 21 Limit to High School Attendance and Authorizing a Separate State Aid Formula for Adult Learning Programs Leading to a High School Diploma or the Equivalent"; memo from State Education Department to NYSUT president Tom Hobart asking for comments on proposed legislation

October 16, 1980. Statement of Thomas Y. Hobart, Jr., President, NYSUT, at the State Education Department Meeting on Adult Learning Legislative Proposals, October 10, 1980; publication, "Adults Learning Here: How the New York State Education Department Serves Adults," January 1979; State Education Department (SED) draft report, "Adult Learning Services Legislative Package for Adult Funding – 1981"; SED white paper, "Goals for Adult Learning Services in New York State," June 30, 1980; related correspondence; newspaper clippings

May 25, 1982. Minutes of January 22, 1982, meeting

January 22, 1982. Narrative, "Exploring Exchange Programs between France and New York State," unsigned, nd.; revised draft by U.S. Department of Education, "Questions and Answers Concerning the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, Chapter 1," October 9, 1981; publication by National Association of Boards of Education, "The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981: Its Meaning for State and Local Policymakers and Administrators," 1981; related documents; agenda for January 22, 1982, meeting of advisory council

"The Education of the Gifted and Talented," prepared by constituent associations forming the New York State Council of Educational Associations, 1981-82; agenda and minutes of September 17, 1980 meeting of advisory council; typed notes from May 1, 1984, meeting; curriculum background paper; status report of five-year plan for curriculum development; correspondence; handwritten notes

April 29, 1982. Draft 7 of State Education Department Local Guidelines for Educating Gifted Students, April 1982; letter to Santelli confirming his appointment to committee, March 26, 1982; meeting agenda, April 29, 1982; draft letter to Board of Regents

NYSUT position statement on affirmative action; text for handbook; handwritten notes

1987 Annual Review (report); monthly newsletter; letter to NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese welcoming NYSUT as member; mission statement

Fact sheets, booklets; annual report of NYSUT Task Force on Alcoholism Recovery, 1982; summary of NYSUT involvement in Employee Assistance Program, 1982; meeting minutes, NYS Department of Mental Hygiene, Division of Alcoholism, 1977

Correspondence and fact sheets re Employee Assistance Program; NYSUT brochure re joint organizational approach to alcoholism recovery programs; survey

Memos; final draft report, "A Model for the Development of an Occupational Alcoholism/Employee Assistance Program within a School Based System"

Correspondence with Mutual of Omaha and others re insurance industry's policies toward alcoholism; related correspondence

Brochures; correspondence with state and local alcoholism program directors

Memo re Alternative Services Committee, May 30, 1986; newspaper clippings

Completed NYSUT surveys of local presidents on alternative school calendars (to determine whether various options for length of academic calendar would be acceptable to teacher membership)

April 20-24, 1987. Memo from Albert Shanker to AFT Executive Council and presidents of state federations and large locals, encouraging them to attend AERA annual meeting, to influence debate on behalf of public schools and teachers, March 25, 1987; concluding remarks at conference, "The Promises, Problems, and Politics of the New York State Educational Reform Movement," by Jeffrey M. Brown, New York State School Boards Association; printed program.

Summaries of division G papers

Memo noting permission from Amnesty International, British Section, to use their materials for Human Rights Educational Materials project; copies of Amnesty materials

Background material re Regents proposal; NYSUT memo re contract language and procedures to be followed in various circumstances with an annual performance review, February 12, 1985; NYSUT report, "Potential Problems and Strategy Options for Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations," January 1985; transcript of discussion among Regents re proposal to allow districts to offer teachers' renewal contract rather than tenure, October 26, 1984; draft and final confidential background material for NYSUT Board of Directors, "Regents' Proposal Must Be Amended," re Regents Proposal on Annual Professional Performance Review, calling plan attack on collective bargaining and plot by school boards to negate contracts, November 1, 1984; legislative bulletin by NYS School Boards Association, "Harmful Twist in Teacher Evaluation," objecting to language that might allow union to participate in evaluations, September 28, 1984; letter from NYSUT to State Education Department offering final comment on proposed Part 100 of Commissioner's Regulations, October 9, 1984; confidential Special Report to NYSUT Board, staff, others, calling Regents Action Plan anti-teacher and anti-union, October 1984

Tentative table of contents for "Extremist Groups in the United States: A Curriculum Guide for Secondary Schools," by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, n.d.; printed publication, Violence, the Ku Klux Klan and the Struggle for Equality: An Informational and Instructional Kit, prepared and published by the Connecticut Education Association, the Council on Interracial Books for Children, and the National Education Association, with attached column by Albert Shanker, criticizing the publication as misrepresentative of overall American attitudes, 1981; Swastika 1960: The Epidemic of anti-Semitic Vandalism in America, 1961; correspondence expressing concern over upsurge in anti-Semitic vandalism in suburban communities, 1980-81; resolution adopted by 1981 NYSUT Representative Assembly, "Response to the Growth of the Ku Klux Klan"

NYSUT memo re binding arbitration and just cause as separate items in contract language, comparing 1978-79 with 1985-86

Assertive Discipline Proposal, with cover letter from NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese noting that course would be part of Effective Teaching Program, May 15, 1985; list of school districts using assertive discipline; related correspondence

Variety of unrelated documents: State Education Department draft discussion paper re assessment centers facilitating employment of teachers not certified under standard system, 1974; unattributed document, "Assessing the Unaffiliated," re consortium of educational institutions providing teacher assessment, 1976; National Education Association statements against Michigan Accountability System, 1974; NYSUT memo re full-value assessment of real estate for purpose of collecting property tax, 1981.

Correspondence; meeting materials

State Education Department document, "Legal Information Concerning School Attendance," March 1974 (revised); Regents discussion item, "Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention Program Interim Report," March 1, 1985; spreadsheet printout of attendance ratios at school districts throughout the state, 1975-76 and 1977-78.

Invoices

Evaluation reports of successful school program in Maryland

Copy of Assembly bill amending state education law to provide bilingual education, January 4, 1978; Federal Register publication of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Bilingual Education Program criteria for grants, June 11, 1976; HEW Office for Civil Rights Task Force Findings Specifying Remedies Available for Eliminating Past Educational Practices Ruled Unlawful under Lau v. Nichols, summer 1975; NYSUT Summary Report on Bilingual Education: The Legal Background, September 15, 1977; article reprint, "Bilingual Education: the Legal Mandate," Harvard Educational Review, May 1977; proposal for Certificate of Specialization in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, by a task force of New York State English to Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Educators Association, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1978; legal brief, Cintron, et al. v. Brentwood UFSD, et al., and cover memo to NYSUT president Tom Hobart, noting judge's determination that bilingual program violated Lau guidelines, January 13, 1978

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Application for Grants under Bilingual Education Program, November 15, 1977; letter to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli from State Education Department chief of Bureau of Bilingual Education, noting concerns re his lack of effective participation on Commissioner's Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, July 29, 1977; minutes of Advisory Council meetings, 1976-77; NYSUT Committee on Educational Issues Survey on Bilingualism in the Public Schools: A Preliminary Report; Memorandum in Support of "An Act to Amend the Education Law in Relation to the Instruction of Pupils Who, By Reason of Foreign Birth, Ancestry, or Otherwise, Experience Difficulty in Reading and Understanding English," signed by NYSUT, UFT, several teachers associations, and community organizations; edited drafts of act and commentary; Senate and Assembly versions; press release by Education Commission of the States, "Hispanic Students 'Consistently' Below Nation in Educational Achievement, Study Reveals"; correspondence between Commissioner of Education Ewald Nyquist and others re bilingual education; memo by State Education Department re basic competency tests (for students), May 28, 1976; re Commissioner's Regulations re Pupil with Special Educational Needs (PSEN); text of State of Colorado Bilingual and Bicultural Education Act, 1975; booklet, Bilingual Education: Statement of Policy and Proposed Action by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, August 1972; list of target school districts in need of bilingual and/or English as a Second Language technical assistance

Statement by teacher in Elmsford, NY, describing unworkable situation in teaching mathematics to Spanish-speaking students of widely varying abilities, grouped into one classroom under current system, October 7, 1977; meeting minutes, 1976; report, "The Current Status of U.S. Bilingual Education Legislation," Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, CAL-ERIC/CLL Series on Languages and Linguistics, Arlington, VA, May 1975

Report of Workshop on Bilingual Education and Certification, February 18-20, 1976; minutes of Commissioner's Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, Subcommittee on Bilingual Certification, February 11, 1976; proposed and approved NYSUT position statement on bilingual education, September 10 and November 22, 1975; correspondence from Brentwood Teachers Association and school district; Bilingual Education Plan for the New York State Education Department, January 1974

Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing: A Report of Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Educational Credentialing Requirements, prepared by Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Education Committee, October 12, 1972; Manual for Developing, Evaluating, and Approving Professional Preparation Program Plans for the Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Specialist Credential, 1973-74, Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, state of California, 1973; Status Report on the Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Teacher Preparation and Training Act of 1973 for the California State Legislature, November 1, 1974

January 19, 1976. Routine correspondence

November 12, 1977. Final report, NYSUT Committee on Educational Issues Survey on Bilingualism in the Public Schools, July 1977

Newspaper clipping of interview with project director; letters addressed to director from corporate and government officials endorsing plans

NYSUT and AFT correspondence re National Conference on Educating Black Children; program.

Discussion outline, "Report to the Regents on the Efficiency of the Occupational Education System," October 22, 1981; correspondence between NYSUT president Tom Hobart and Robert Draper, president, Nassau BOCES Central Council of Teachers, re NYSUT's ability to protect the rights of the handicapped and the teachers who serve them, 1981; memo from NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese to presidents of BOCES and community college locals, requesting comment on State Education Department report to the Regents re occupational education in BOCES, with attached text of report, January 25, 1983; related correspondence; handwritten notes.

Correspondence re State Education Department report, "Occupational Education in BOCES"; re "Futuring" project, 1983

BOCES Administrative Handbook, 1977; compilation of documents, "NYSUT on the Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions," including testimony of President Hobart to NYS Standing Senate Committee on Education, 1980; related correspondence

September 15, 1995. Conference program; related correspondence; materials re special education

Revised draft of final report of statewide task force, "Boards of Cooperative Educational Services: From Existing Strength to Improved performance," with cover letter noting limited opportunity for further revision, January 6, 1997; earlier drafts

NYSUT annual budget and related memos.

NYSUT annual budget and related memos

Spreadsheet of expenditures; personnel assignments

NYSUT annual budget and related memos; personnel costs

NYSUT annual budget and related memos; spreadsheets

Spreadsheets of expense projects

Responsibility Center budget forms

NYSTA program budget proposals

List of NYSUT budgets for special projects and committees; memos; forms

Revised special projects budgets; worksheets; memos

Budget materials re staff reductions

September 29 - October 3, 1985. Chief State School Officers Council briefing notebook and draft statement for consideration at annual meeting on International Dimensions of Education, November 15-19, 1985; agenda for annual conference of CCSSO Study Commission, "America's Education for a World Perspective," September 29-October 3, 1985

Program proposal, "NYSUT Coordination and Linkage Program for Development of Youth Training Programs," October 1979, submitted to State of New York Department of Labor; project package (narrative); outline

Program proposal, "NYSC-APSA/NYSUT Coordination and Linkage Program for Development of Youth Training Programs," September 1981; NYSUT project outline, "A Career Alternative Program for Laid-off/Excessed Teachers and Educational Personnel"; correspondence from NYS Department of Labor with NYSUT director of research and educational services Charles Santelli; handwritten notes

CTA Vocational Educational Linkages, March 8, 1979; NYSUT Position Statement on the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 1973 (passed by NYSUT Board of Directors March 18, 1978); internal NYSUT correspondence with NYSUT president Tom Hobart re CETA regulations, public service employment annual wage index and supplementation, June 14, 1979; summary report of start-up period of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects, January – June 1978, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Text of bill (H.R. 11086) in U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, February 22, 1978; correspondence re CETA annual conference; NYSUT Information Bulleting re CETA amendments of 1978; comment by NYSUT president Tom Hobart to U.S. Department of Labor on proposed CETA regulations, January 2, 1979; report on CETA Executive Committee meeting, July 18, 1978

Drafts of NYSUT Position Statement on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, 1973; related memos; report on CETA Issues and Research Committee meeting, February 17, 1978; Madison County Manpower Program Procedures

U.S. Department of Labor draft of proposed amendments to CETA, January 23, 1978

Copy of bill

Official printing of bill in Federal Register, October 18, 1977; reprint of CETA legislation of 1973 as amended to August 1977, by NYS Manpower Services Council; proposed NYSUT position statement on CETA, 1973; NYSUT Information Bulletin re CETA, February 1978; related correspondence

Reprints of CETA law; related correspondence

Correspondence with NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese

October 31, 1986. Confederated Organizations for Teacher Education/Teacher Education Conference Board press release, "Major Conference Goal to Create Model for Teacher Education Reform," October 30, 1986; workshop agenda; handwritten notes; related publications

Correspondence re raids of AFL unions by NEA and Teamsters; results of affiliation vote between CSEA and Public Employees Federation

NYS Assembly Higher Education Committee "Proposal to the Legislature on the Governance and Funding of the City University of New York," April 9, 1979; brief re the structure and funding for the College of Staten Island, CUNY, presented by Assemblyman Guy Molinari before the NYS Assembly Higher Education Committee; NYSUT press release criticizing recommendations, May 1, 1979; paper by Department of Institutional Research, Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, "The Mission of the City University of New York," November 6, 1978; NYSUT memo, "City University of New York in the Executive Budget," May 1978; related correspondence

Agreement between the City University of New York, Board of Higher Education, and the Legislative Conference, September 15, 1969; faculty salary data, 1971-72

November 30 - December 1, 1978. Testimony of Thomas Y. Hobart, president, NYSYUT, to the New York State Assembly Committee on Higher Education Hearing on the Governance of CUNY, December 1, 1978, and handwritten draft; report, "The State Investment in Higher education in New York," prepared by the Department o f Institutional Research, professional Staff Congress/CUNY, November 10, 1978; report, "The missions of the City University of New York," professional Staff Congress/CUNY, Dr. Irwin Polishook, president, November 6, 1978; Statement of Dr. Irwin Polishook, president, Professional Staff Congress/CUNY at the hearing of the Assembly Committee on Higher Education on the Governance of the City University of New York, 1978; memo to NYC Mayor Edward Koch; City Council President Carol Bellamy, Comptroller Harrison Goldin, and City Council Majority Leader Thomas Cuite from consultants Harold Howe II and Associates re Recommendations Regarding CUNY Financing and Governance, Interim Report #2, November 12, 1978

Memo from California Federation of Teachers/AFT re 1983-84 state budget and proposed law re school finance, August 1983; report by California Commission on the Teaching Profession, "Who Will Teach Our Children? A Strategy for Improving California's Schools," with cover memo to NYSUT Board of Directors from president Tom Hobart, November 25, 1985

Agenda for first meeting; note to NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese re serving on Advisory Committee

Memo re findings of questionnaire on censorship, including punitive action against teaching staff for using banned textbooks/materials, March 17, 1977; packet of newspaper clippings re book selection and banning practices

Workshop exercise for NYSUT teachers re censorship in education

Memos from State Education Department to chief executive officers of postsecondary institutions soliciting reactions to proposed changes in Commissioner's Regulations for certification requirements in various subjects; related correspondence.

Booklet from the NYS Department of Labor, "A Guide to Seeking Funds from CETA in New York State," with cover letter, February 1977; letters re individual teacher certification issues

Booklet, New York Style Certification, n.d.; list of certificates issued, 1973-74; preliminary drafts of hearings on certification held at various districts around the state by NYSUT and the State Education Department, 1972-73; related correspondence

New York State Teachers Association Certification Task Force Progress Report, August 1972; State Education Department summary of Teacher Education Conference, August 28, 1972; memo re amendments to Commissioner's Regulations re teaching assistants, July 1969; letters re individual teacher certification issues

December 20, 1976. Position paper by teachers council, "Certification: A Stormy Future," December 20, 1976; paper, "Legal Impediments to Teacher Certification: An Overview of Issues Discussed at a Meeting of the Multi-State Consortium," December 3-5, 1975; unsigned speech to Green Bay Public Schools re inservice education, September 30, 1976; draft of article by NYSUT research director Charles Santelli, "Attacking the Profession," c. January 1977; New York State Teachers Association memo re Taylor Law, October 1969.

January 1, 1980. Background paper, "Teaching Children with Handicapping Conditions," n.d., c. 1978; related correspondence, 1979

NYSUT report, "Summary of State Education Department Discussion Paper and Draft Regulations Which [sic] Are the Subject of the Regents Hearings on Proposed Amendments to the Certification Requirements for Elementary and Secondary Academic Areas," 1986; meeting agendas for NYSUT ad hoc group; AFT/Council for Basic Education national survey, "Making Do in the Classroom: A Report on the Misassignment of Teachers," 1985; AFT report, "The Revolution That Is Overdue," 1986

Correspondence re certification of individual teachers

Handwritten notes, phone message slips, correspondence between NYSUT and State Education Department officials re individual teachers/staff, policy positions

Memo to NYSUT legal staff asking whether parents can refuse counseling services by individual school psychologists and whether letter expressing dissatisfaction can be placed in student's file, noting local may file grievance for harm to professional reputation, June 16, 1993, and background correspondence; memos re other individual counselors; BOCES community work site applications for individual assignments

Handwritten notes, phone message slips, correspondence between NYSUT and State Education Department officials re individual teachers/staff, policy positions

Letter re backlog from overwhelming number of requests for certification; handwritten notes, phone message slips, correspondence between NYSUT and State Education Department officials re individual teachers/staff, policy positions

Handwritten notes, phone message slips, correspondence between NYSUT and State Education Department officials re individual teachers/staff, policy positions

Memos re policy questions; meeting agendas

Correspondence and documents re certification of dance teachers in various states

Letter re certification application as teacher of agriculture

Routine correspondence

Request for maternity leave, January 16, 1975; letter of approval; transfer form for new job classification, September 1, 1974; letter of resignation

Correspondence re dispute involving travel reimbursement vouchers for director of Division of Instructional Improvement

Correspondence re appealed bereavement leave request

Activity reports; voucher requests for travel, moving expenses; correspondence re extended leave request; appointment letter as assistant director of Division of Instructional Improvement; resume; preliminary report by Division of Instructional Improvement, "Redesign Overview: A Review of a State Education Department Project," September 1971

Correspondence re offer of employment, reimbursements, involvement with TECAP, resignation, recommendation for law school, resume

Correspondence re salary, reimbursements, leave request

Correspondence re sick leave, commenting to Santelli on poor treatment of female staff by "male chauvinist pig" administration

Letter from Santelli on retirement; routine correspondence

Offer of employment as associate; resume; routine correspondence

Routine correspondence from offer of employment to retirement

Letter of recommendation; offer of employment and acceptance; letter of resignation two months later

Application for employment

Application for employment; offer of employment; letter of resignation two months later

Correspondence re sick leave, retirement

Correspondence re tuition reimbursement, educational leave, description of job duties as associate; resignation for higher position at AFT

Requests for tuition reimbursement, upgrade of job classification, medical leave, including confidential medical reports; letter of resignation

Memos re salary and performance issues; list of charges for Mailgrams sent on one day by Willette, with cover memo to Charles Santelli noting expense; letter of resignation

Offer of employment as assistant to the director, January 1975; note to staff on resignation three months later; newspaper clipping re new position as director of American Association of University Women; letter to Santelli from U.S. Office of Personnel Management requesting reference for application for assistant director of agency relations, 1979; resume

Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on the Education of Children and Youth at-Risk: "A Time for Assertive Action: School Strategies for Promoting the Education Success of At-Risk Children," October 13, 1988; earlier draft, June 28; memo to NYSUT Task Force on Civil and Human Rights re AFT Conference, "Building Alliances for Youth at Risk," September 18, 1990; program updates; draft Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Preventive Policies for At-Risk Children Aged Seven and Younger, sponsored New York Governance in the 21st century, a project of the New York City Partnership, November 9, 1988; related correspondence.

Materials aimed at counseling children who are at risk for drug use or suicide; final draft report of the Commissioner's Task Force on the Education of Children and Youth At-Risk, "No Time to Lose: Educational Strategies for a Renewed Investment in Our Children," June 28, 1988; NYS Council on Vocational Education Special Report and Recommendations Concerning Occupational Education's Role with Students at-Risk, February 1988; Youth at Risk Community Response: A Major Conference, American Catholic Family and Community Services, November 1990; Testimony of Herb Magidson, Executive Vice President, NYSUT, to the State Education Committee on State Aid for Education – 1987: Services for Children-at-Risk in NYS Schools, February 10, 1987; Testimony on Pupils with Special Educational Needs (PSEN) Reform before the NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Education, on behalf of Thomas Y. Hobart, Jr., President, NYSUT, February 28, 1986; paper, "At-Risk Children: AFT's Commitment to Improve Their Future"

NYSUT publication, "Helping Children at Risk," re drinking, crack cocaine, suicide, n.d. (including cover letter from vp Antonia Cortese); statistics on teenage suicide in NYS, 1985; correspondence re grant program for training

Press release, "NYSUT Leaders in Chile as Election Observers," October 1988; NYSUT memo re Chile campaign, trip report by Sandra Feldman, April 1988

Testimony by NYSUT president Thomas Y. Hobart to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Cities of New York State, November 30, 1977; program for NYSUT Legislative Conference on the Cities, "Facts about Cities and City School Districts," February 4-5, 1977; NYSUT publication, "City Schools in Fiscal Crisis: City School Districts and Their Constitutional Tax Limits, 1977-78," March 1978; fact sheet re constitutional amendment on tax limitation for city school districts, 1985; report of Minority Task Force on the Fiscal Plight of Small City School Districts, with cover letter from chairman Assemblyman John B. Daly to Assembly Minority Leader Perry Duryea, February 7, 1978; related materials.

Book, National Standards for Civics and Government, by Center for Civic Education, 1994; program for conference banquet, June 4, 1994; text of banquet presentation by executive vice president, the Walt Disney Company, "A Look at the Entertainment Media and Civic Education"; outline notes for walking tour of Prague, "The Freedom Trail"; paper by Diane Ravitch, "Civic Education in Prague"; description of Civnet, "The Internet User's Guide for Civic Education Practitioners"; Civitas Freedom Paper, "Teaching Democracy"

Testimony by NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese; press release

Memos; summary of public comments; list of NYSUT policy references; statistical analyses

Testimony of Antonia Cortese, second vice president, NYSUT, to the Board of Regents, on Class Size and Teaching Load, June 19, 1985; discussion paper for amending Commissioner's Regulations re daily teaching load for secondary school teachers, May 21, 1985; contracts analyses for various school districts re class size/teaching load, with handwritten cover note to Charles Santelli, May 24, 1985

AFT Educational Issues Department Review of Research on Class Size, n.d.; Illinois State Board of Education, "Class Size for Kindergarten and Primary Grades: A Review of the Research," January 1985; memo discussing statistical data re NYC class size, September 16, 1983; NYSUT Research and Educational Services Educational Issues paper re class size, 1976; scholarly article reprints

Memo to NYSUT Executive Committee re State Education Department review of coaching requirements, with attached draft of letter to Commissioner, February 27, 1987; chart of concerns by Ad Hoc Committee on the Coaching Requirement

Letters to NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese from elementary school teacher, complaining of lack of progress by NYSUT in improving working conditions, with reply; "A Report on the Plight of the Collective Bargaining System," NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Labor, Frank Barbaro, chairmen, Stanley Fink, Speaker of the Assembly, January 1984; report, "Collective Bargaining by Professional Employees," David Rabban, n.d.

Regents discussion item re sample 7th and 8th grade options for remedial instruction, November 2, 1984; memo to Regents re sample schedules for grades 7-12 under the new Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations, October 19, 1984; New Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations, November 19, 1984; Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Part 200 – Handicapped Children, as amended April 27, 1984; Math and Science Diploma Requirements, November 26, 1984; documents re action plan to improve elementary and secondary education results in New York, including implementation outline

NYSUT publication, "Data Relative to New York State Community Colleges under SUNY Jurisdiction: Revenues and Expenditures for 1978-79," November 1980; for 1978-79; for 1977-78; "Compilation of Statistical Data Concerning the Community Colleges of the State University of New York," fall 1979; information bulletin, Community College Status report, November 28, 1980

Memos re state aid; budget report for 1977-78

Budget reports; newsletters

Budget reports

Budget reports

United Teachers Legislative Program; budget reports; memos re state aid and related correspondence

Memo re pending legislation re community colleges, May 4, 1976; NYSUT report, "The Community Colleges in the 1973-74 Executive Budget"; related correspondence re state aid

Budget reports as above

May 17, 1977. Comparisons of state aid to individual community colleges; NYSUT fact sheet and recommendations on financing

NYSUT memo summarizing community schools planning meeting with State Education Department, described as a "top-down" operation, December 2, 1987

NYSUT Special Education Committee policy recommendation on Compensatory Education Programs Conducted in the Summer; minutes of NYSUT Executive Committee meeting, May 19, 1988

Report prepared for U.S. Office of Education by Stanford Research Institute Educational Policy Research Center, "Competency-Based Teacher Education," July 1973; letter to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli from Wappingers Congress of Teachers re withdrawal from program because of refusal by district to provide funds for implementation, January 31, 1974; text of speech by Santelli, "New York State United Teachers Views Competency Based Teacher Education and Teacher Evaluation," presented at the Eighth Conference on Value Inquiry: Value Reassessment in Education, April 20, 1974; "New York State Teachers Association and the Professionalization of Teaching," 1961; unsigned paper with edit marks, "Teacher Education Reform," n.d.; "Where We Stand" column by Albert Shanker opposing competency-based certification, 1973; correspondence

Discussion paper comparing advantages and disadvantages of competency-based education, n.d.; CbTE Policy Board meeting minutes, September 19, 1973; memo to NYSUT research director Santelli summarizing meeting of policy board for the handicapped, September 24, 1973; related policy papers; State Education Department memo re employment of uncertified teachers, May 1974; handwritten notes; correspondence

Materials for Value Reassessment in Education Conference, April 1974, report prepared for U.S. Office of Education by Stanford Research Institute Educational Policy Research Center, "Competency-Based Teacher Education," July 1973; paper, "Education and Politics in New York State; The Office of Education Performance Review," by James G. Ward, April 1974; State Education Department paper, "'Unit' Included in Regent Statewide Plan for the Development of Post-Secondary Education," November 1, 1972

Agreement between the State of New York and United University Professions, Inc., 1974-1976; NYSUT Position Statement in the New York State Regents Mandate on Competency-Based Teacher Education, revised November 1975; memo to NYSUT research director Santelli commenting on Regents Advisory Board recommendations for the 1976 Master Plan, May 6, 1975; final draft of Middletown – New Paltz Competency Based Field Centered Teacher Education Program, effective dates, September 1, 1974, through August 31, 1975; printed publication, "Competency Based Teacher Education: Toward a Consensus," National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development, Spring 1976; Final Report to the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Institute for Competence Assessment, Division of McBer & Company, 1975; correspondence

"Curiouser and Curiouser," Statement of T. Edward Hollander before the Executive Committee of the Association of Colleges and Universities of New York, June 18, 1974; "British Teacher Centres and New York's Experience with Competency-Based Teacher Education," Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist, February 13, 1975, before National Commission on Performance-Based Education; correspondence

NYSUT Position Statement on the New York State Regents Mandate on Competency Based Teacher Education, drafts 1 and 3, February 18/19 and March 11, 1975; State Education Department Competence-Based Certification Newsletter, November 1974; "A Review of New York State Competency-Based Teacher Education Trial Projects," Teacher Education Conference Board, September 1974; NYSUT alert to all locals requesting that they do not sign CBTE consortial agreements with colleges and universities until further notice, January 10, 1975; related correspondence

State Education Department publication, "The Regents Competency Testing Program: Competency Testing, Remedial Instruction and High School Credentials: Regulations and Procedures," March 1979; "Competence in Reading Comprehension, Writing and Mathematics and High School Credentials," and attached regulations, with request for Regents review from Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach, February 5, 1979; NYSUT position statement, revised November 1975; text of amendment to Commissioner's Regulations re handicapped children; National Education Association Research Bulletin, October 1957: "The Postwar Struggle to Provide Competent Teachers"; other articles re competency testing; newspaper clippings; correspondence

Printed report of a conference on performance-based teacher education: "Is This What We Want?" with speeches by Al Shanker, academics, and representative of State Education Department, November 30, 1973; papers and resolutions commenting on competency-based teaching, 1973; handwritten notes; correspondence

Draft paper presented to the National Consortium of CBTE Developers, "The Governance of Teacher Education by Consortium," by Thomas Y. Hobart, Jr., president, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), January 1974; Media & Methods article reprint, "Assault with a Deadly Mandate: The Minimal Competency Movement," September 1979; report, "Trends in Competency-Based Teacher Certification," Education Commission of the States, October 1980

Meeting agendas and minutes; list of members; statement of rules of the Advisory Board; related publications; correspondence; handwritten notes

Minutes; memos; handwritten notes; list of considerations re microcomputers, February 1982; printed vendor brochures; handwritten notes; document re NYSUT information management system proposal

Memos re copyright issues for computer software, 1985; outline of needs re access to information on legal decisions, economic data, salary schedules, contract analysis, 1981; related memos; agendas; handwritten notes.

Minutes of Computer Committee meetings re salary searches

Routine agendas for conferences of NEA, NYSUT, and State Education Research Staff Association.

February 28, 1973. Correspondence, newsletter

Program for Community Conference on Education in Briarcliff, Briarcliff Teachers Association, April 7, 1972

May 15, 1973. Letter inviting NYSUT research director Santelli to attend CITE Project General Assembly, c. April 1973; separate letter explaining expected role of Santelli as member of reaction panel re performance-based education and assessment of teacher competencies; program for general assembly meeting; handwritten notes

April 18, 1973. Agenda; memo from Santelli suggesting topics for educational issues, April 16; outline of contract information

November 30, 1973, Work sheets for communications exercises at statewide human relations conferences; list of registrants.

Agenda, exercise materials

Agenda; letter to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli confirming his scheduled address to the conference

Agenda; summary of 1970 Census Data Available for School Districts

September 11, 1973. Call for Mid-Eastern Regional Research meeting, with list of topics

Program for Professional Conference Day, remarks of Daniel Klepak, director, State Office of November 15, 1973. Education Performance Review, at the 54th Convention of the New York State School Boards Association, re deficiencies in public education system, October 28, 1973; State Education Department report, "The Pupil Evaluation Program: Statewide Report October 1992 Reading and Mathematics Test Results," August 1993; newspaper clippings; handwritten notes

Tentative agenda; NYSTA Research and Information Services 1971-72 brochure; NYSTA Research document, Jericho Regional Office Area 1971-72 Salary Schedule Summary for Teachers; NYSTA Research Memorandum, Summary of 1971-72 Agreement Provisions: Jericho january 28, 1972.Regional Area; NYSTA Information Services Memorandum, Personal Income in New York State, September 1971; Estimated Net Effective Buying Income and Net Cash Income of Households, September 1971; Salaries of Inexperienced College Graduates: How Do Teachers' Salaries Compare with Other Fields? (male and female teachers excluding NYC vs male college graduates including NYC), November 1971; NYSTA Research memorandum supplement, Preliminary Analysis of 1972 Endicott Survey, January 27, 1972; Cost of Living Trends, January 24, 1972; Right of Access to Data, re right of taxpayers to examine school district records, January 1972; NYSTA Research memorandum, Selected 1970-71 Financial Data for School Districts: Nassau-Suffolk Counties, January 1972

Statistical research documents: 1971-72 Salary Schedules and Selected Agreement Provisions, Associated Community College Facilities NYSTA; Teacher Salaries and Salary Schedules 1973-1974, and Selected Salary Data for School Administrators, January 1974

California Agency for Research in Education; National Education Association Research Division reports re Salaries Paid and Salary-Related Practices in Higher Education, 1971-72

April 6, 1973. Agenda

List of workshops for second annual educational technology conference

December 12, 1970. Agenda; worksheets for analysis of district budgets and annual financial reports

Routine correspondence re assorted workshops

March 24-28, 1972. Position papers, reports, correspondence

August 10-11, 1972. NYSTA program; materials re competency-based certification

March 12, 1973. Program

May 16, 1995. Handwritten notes

March 24, 1995. Draft of NYSUT president Tom Hobart's convention speech; list of Carmel teachers salaries; letter from NYS Republican Committee, urging pressure on Assemblyman Pordum to support Gov. Pataki's proposed "workfare" legislation; transcript of Republican television ad; handwritten notes

February 10-11, 1995. Application for Twenty-First Century Schools program, which would exempt schools from many regulations and laws; statement of Thomas Sobol, announcing resignation as Commissioner of Education; text of proposed budget legislation and discussion paper

January 12, 1994. NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services monthly report

February 8, 1986. Packet of newspaper clippings and other materials for NYSUT Regional Leadership Conference, "Union Leadership on Professional Issues," February 8, 1986; handwritten notes

August 23, 1986. Meeting announcement, handwritten note

January 4, 1986. Handwritten notes

November 4, 1986. Agenda for conference; letter to NYSUT vice president Antonia Cortese asking her to give a presentation re teacher centers

NYSUT publications: Part 100 of Commissioner's Regulations, August 15, 1985; Guide to Implementation of Part 100 of Commissioner's Regulations, April 26 (prepared for the 1985 NYSUT Representative Assembly); Vocational Education Futuring Alert materials, February 1982; Selected Financial Data: Districts in the NYSUT Western New York Area: Negotiations Workshop, November 22-23, 1985; U.S. Department of Education national invitational conference, February 25-27, 1982, paper: "Research on Teaching: Implications for Practice," "Recruitment, Selection and Retention: The Shape of the Teaching Force"; NYSUT packet of press releases of July action of Board of Regents, sent to regional coordinators, August 3, 1983

AFL-CIO Public Employee Department publication, "In Search of the Reagan Tax Cut: Update 1984"; report by Public Policy Institute and NYS Job Training Partnership Council, "The Impact of Migration on New York State: Summary of Findings," September 1984; NY State Education Department draft document for discussion only, "Revised Proposed New Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations, " September 21, 1984; NYSUT discussion paper on Board of Regents' Proposed Action Plan to Improve Elementary and Secondary Education, January 1984; testimony of Antonia Cortese, second vice president, NYSUT, to the Board of Regents on the Regents Legislative Proposals, September 19, 1984

Memos, handwritten notes

Memos recommending higher fees for consultants used by NYSUT for conferences and workshops; related correspondence

NYSUT Information Bulletin re consultant teacher services

Memos from NY State Education Department discussing austerity budgets; NYSUT memo and background paper re how contingency budgets are determined and adopted following repeated rejection by voters

Weekly contract summaries for public school districts, community colleges, and BOCES; related memos

Weekly contract summaries for public school districts, community colleges, and BOCES; related memos

NYSUT memorandum, "Copyright Guidelines and Educational 'Fair Use' for Educators," n.d.; related correspondence

NYSUT Background Paper for Regents' Discussion of Corporal Punishment, primarily re assaults on teachers by students, November 27, 1984; memo from NYSUT general counsel discussing legal grounds for corporal punishment, including Biblical basis for common law presumption, and state and U.S. Supreme Court cases upholding corporal punishment as means of asserting school authority, January 29, 1985; correspondence re reporting requirements; memo to Regents from Education Commission Gordon Ambach noting that SED counsel had advised that they do not have the authority to ban corporal punishment, November 19, 1984

Children Magazine's Report Card on Corporal Punishment in America's Schools, Rodale Press; amendments to Rules of the Board of Regents, prohibiting corporal punishment; legal opinions by NYSUT general counsel; handwritten notes; newspaper clippings

c.1980. NYSUT bulletin making statistical argument that the cost of education is low compared with other state and local government expenditures, inflation, personal income, etc.

Message to the Legislature, January 3, 1990; "1989 State of the Union Address," unattributed (probably not Cuomo) speech to NYSUT Representative Assembly

NYSUT report, "Curriculum Mandates," 1977; State Education Department study papers; NYSUT policy statements; correspondence.

Correspondence

Correspondence re computer software and equipment issues, including updating data files.

Charts and graphs re national enrollment trends; NYSUT memo re alternatives to teacher layoffs in response to declining enrolment, December 18, 1980; fact sheet, the Impact of Declining Enrollment; handwritten notes

Letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to the Governor's Conference for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities and Infant Mortality, questioning recommendation to mandate K-12 sex education, access to services by pre-school handicapped children, July 22, 1981.

Seminar paper, "Lovaas, TEACCH, And the Public System: The Court as Referee," by Myrna Mandlawitz, National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE); summaries of legal cases; article reprints.

Confidential memo from NYSUT associate Phil Ellis re State Education Department draft memo re high school course credit for students with disabilities, May 31, 1996; text of SED draft memo, June 1996; memo to Regents "for emergency action" to allow more flexibility under Commissioner's Regulations for assigning a teacher to teach a subject without certification in the subject, May 24, 1996; NY State Education Department Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities: Report on Disability Issues, June 1996; spreadsheet showing numbers of students receiving special education services in New York State, by type of disability and age, December 1992-94.

c. 1992-1994. Technical assistance planning guide prepared by California Research Institute (San Francisco State University) and U.S. Department of Education (not officially endorsed), n.d., c. 1992; cover letter to Phil Ellis from U.S. Department of Education, August 4, 1994.

Newsletters.

State Education Department Advisory Committee on Disaggregation meeting minutes, re tagging individual students with permanent socioeconomic (?) status identifiers for a central database (contains acronyms never spelled out), August 17, 1990

Report by NYS Legislative Commission on Science and Technology, "Distance Learning: The Sky's the Limit," September 1988; "Survey of Distance Learning Projects: A Report to the NYSUT Task Force on Educational Technology," May 1987; draft report for discussion only, "SUNYSAT Distance Education Interest Survey" Executive Summary, January 1990; correspondence re legislative proposals

Testimony of Thomas Y. Hobart, president, NYSUT, at the NYS Senate Education Committee Hearing on Strengthening Teaching in Elementary and Secondary Schools, January 28, 1986; edited draft; letter from Senate Education Committee chair James H. Donovan inviting Hobart to testify, with attached committee report, "Teacher Improvement Program: The Third Year," December 24, 1985; Education Week article re education reform in New Jersey, n.d., press release from Assembly Speaker's office, "Fink Issues Mid-Term Report Card on Education Task Force Goals," December 27, 1985

"T.I.P.: Teacher Improvement Program: The Third Year; Report from the Senate Education Committee, James H. Donovan, chairman," December 1985, with cover letter from Donovan to NYSUT president Hobart; unsigned testimony (probably by Hobart) at Donovan hearings, January 14, 1986; handwritten memo to Hobart from Pat Flynn critiquing testimony, January 8, 1986; press release by Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink, report card on education task force goals, December 27, 1985

Drafts of testimony by NYSUT president Thomas Hobart to the Senate Education Committee (Sen. Donovan, chair) hearing on Strengthening Teaching in Elementary and Secondary Schools, January 28, 1986

Briefing paper; memo to NYSUT president Tom Hobart from governor's office seeking comment on proposed legislation establishing and funding BOCES-administered centers for dropouts, March 20, 1991; reply from Hobart, stating opposition, April 12, 1991; comments from other NYSUT officials.

December 10, 1986. NYSUT report, "Data Relative to New York State Community Colleges under SUNY Jurisdiction: Revenues & Expenditures for 1982-83," February 1986; lists of contract expiration dates for various community colleges.

Newspaper clippings re calls by Board of Regents for resignation of Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist over racial integration, accountability, and other issues, criticism by Commerce Commissioner John S. Dyson and Gov. Hugh Carey; NYSUT memo re audit of NYC Bureau of Child Guidance, with reference to Dyson comments, October 4, 1976

Reports: Child Care Capital Construction Preliminary Report, prepared by NYS Department of Social Services, February 1995; NYS Child Care Coordinating Council 1995 Child Care Agenda; Evaluation of the Collaborative Child Care Demonstration Project, final report, December 1994; fact sheet by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families re child care programs, January 1995; Statement of Thomas Sobol, Commissioner of Education, before the NYS Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees, February 8, 1995; letter to NYS Gov. Pataki from Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Programs, outlining recommendations for streamlining child care services in New York, January 27, 1995; press releases from Government Watch '95 (human services provider advocacy group) criticizing governor's budget cuts and stricter regulations for child care and other welfare supports, February 8 and 10, 1995; agenda and handwritten notes of early childhood meeting, 2/17/95

Preliminary report, proceedings of the "Vision 21" Education Symposium, January 12-14, 1994, "New York's K-12 Public Education in the 21st Century: A Framework for Action," sponsored by the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources; report by New York State Permanent Interagency Committee on Early Childhood Program, "Comprehensive Career Development Plan: Issues, Background Statements, and Objectives," April 1994, with cover letter soliciting comments; compilation of comments, June 15; follow-up questionnaire, September 14; related memos

"Putting Children First," vol. 1, by NYS Special Commission on Educational Structure, Policies and Practices, December 1993; "Comprehensive Services in Early Childhood Programs: Preliminary Results of Survey to Assess Needs and Improve Services for Children and Families," NYS Council on Children and Families, November 1994; "Changing a Generation's Destiny: Restructuring Services for New York's High Risk and Troubled Children," State Communities Association, recommending replacing NYS Council on Children and Families with NYS Department for Children and Families, noting deterioration of services since 1991 report, c. 1994; text of governor's program bill to amend the education law to coordinate school and community services, 1994

Testimony of Antonia Cortese, first vp, NYSUT, to the Board of Regents and NYS Education Department on Supporting Young Children and Families: A Proposed Regents Policy Statement on Early Childhood, September 30, 1992; testimony by Cortese to Regents and SED at their 1995 Legislative Conference, September 21, 1994; NYSUT comments on Comprehensive Early Childhood Center Development Initiative; materials for December 19, 1994, meeting of Advisory Committee to the Permanent Interagency Committee on Early Childhood Programs, including summary of September 9, 1994, meeting, handwritten notes, and draft report recommending interagency coordination

Draft guidelines from NYS Department of Social Services and NYS Department of Health, "Promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Programs: Guidelines and Technical Assistance for Caregivers," with cover letter soliciting comments, September 9, 1994; correspondence re NYS Comprehensive Early Childhood Career Development Initiative; "Supporting Young Children and Families: A Regents Policy Statement on Early Childhood," with background paper and draft action plan for implementation, June 1993

U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics report, "Student Data Handbook for Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education"; NYSUT memo "noting our concerns" re proposal to open state pre-K expansion funds to child care providers, April 1, 1993; handwritten notes

September 9, 1994. Third draft of final report, "Evaluation of the Collaborative Child Care Demonstration Project," prepared for Permanent Interagency Committee on Early Childhood Programs (PICECP), requesting comments, August 17, 1994; memo to the Collaborative Structures Subcommittee of PICECP requesting comments on third final draft, August 17, 1994; Carnegie Corporation report, "Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children" (abridged version), August 1994; draft report, "Preparing Our Children for the Next Century: An Early Childhood Action Plan for New York State," August 30, 1994; handwritten notes

May 16, 1994. Meeting notices; minutes; focus group questions; handwritten notes

April 25, 1994. Agenda for April 25 meeting; summary of meeting; draft report, "Head Start and Child Care in New York State," prepared by Early Childhood Policy Research, for the NYS Department of Social Services Bureau of Early Childhood Services, c. 1993; report, "Day Care Collaborative Demonstration Program Highlights of Preliminary Findings from Site Visits," April 25. 1994; prospectus, "The Finance Project: Toward Improved Ways and Means of Financing Education and Other Children's Services," October 1993; handwritten notes

Draft recommendations of Collaborative Structures Subcommittee: Promoting Multi-Funded Early Childhood Programs, January 6, 1993; letter from Santelli to Council on Children and Families summarizing NYSUT policy statements on early childhood services and programs, insisting that all funds be given to public schools, October 18, 1988; related correspondence

October, 1, 1993. Meeting agenda; letter from NYSUT president Hobart to Foundation for Child Development reiterating NYSUT's minority opinion that no funds should given over to "the underprepared direction of a daycare center director," June 24, 1993; report by subcommittee, "Promoting Multi-Funded Early Childhood Programs," revised May 17, 1993

January 10, 1994. Summaries of January 10, 1994, and October 1, 1993, meetings; discussion item for Regents: progress report on implementation of the Regents Early Childhood Policy Statement, December 9, 1993; handwritten notes

January 24, 1994. Meeting agenda; Summary of the Findings of the Data Development Work Group, January 1994; executive summary of report on Head Start quality and expansion; handwritten notes

Summary of October 5 meeting, with notes about the Morelan Commission, the PICECP Career October 5, 1993. Development Work Group, and a request for a meeting with Hobart or Cortese re early childhood certification; agenda for meeting of October 5, with background materials including "Child Care for Mildly Ill Children, Severity Level One," "Child Care for Moderately Ill Children, Severity Levels Two and Three," "Findings of the Committee on Child Care for Ill Children: Proposal for a System of Child Care for Ill Children in New York," text of Assembly bill re day care services, description of "seamless funding bill"; fact sheet, "Seamless Funding of Child Care Subsidies (A6516-A/S5111-A): Myths and Facts"

Publication of Families and Work Institute, "Public-Private Partnerships for Child Care: A Feasibility Study for New York State," July 1991; memo to Policy Board members of the Early Childhood Investment Fund re fund guidelines, October 21, 1993; description of fund; letter to NYSUT vp Cortese acknowledging acceptance to serve on Policy Board; minutes of Policy Board meeting of August 18, 1993; fact sheets on critical issues; agenda of Policy Board orientation meeting, with manual and related materials

Organizational chart for Permanent Interagency Committee on Early Childhood Programs; mission statement for Career Development Work Group; timeline for plan development; memos and other materials re Career Development Work Group

Position statement and other materials by National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); comparative analysis of early childhood educational programs, for work group meeting, 1993

Meeting agenda for Comprehensive Early Childhood Career Development Initiative, October 25, 1993; draft policy statement by National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); materials re Training and Technical Assistance Subcommittee

Working papers and correspondence

Highlights of the (Governor's) Children's Education Summit, April 27-28, 1994; description of NYS Child Abuse Register and Valmont case, with cover memo from NYSUT research director Santelli, noting that case probably closed the register; Carnegie Corporation of New York press release announcing new task force on learning in the primary grades; related materials and correspondence

NYS Department of Social Services Day Care Center Licensing Regulations, March 1980; DSS Day Care Centers Questions and Answers: Information for Group [sic] & Individuals Interested in Organizing a Day Care Center, n.d.; State Education Department papers, 1992: "Philosophical Base: The Early Childhood Education Program," "A Good Day for Young Children: The Early Childhood Education Program"; papers with handwritten notation, "excellent articles," re pre-kindergarten (developmentally appropriate practices, NYS experimental pre-K); testimony of Gloria Weinman, United Federation of Teachers, at a State Education Department hearing on the Early Childhood Certification Draft Regulations, October 10, 1990; Governor Mario M. Cuomo's Message to the Legislature, January 1988 and 1989; report of the proceedings of the Legislative Symposium on Early Childhood Programs, February 3-4, 1988; draft NYSUT policy paper on early childhood programs, November 18, 1988.

Revised draft of final report, with cover memo to Task Force on Early Childhood Services, November 8, 1988; task force meeting materials (recommendations and unresolved issues), October 1988; draft letters to Gov. Cuomo from NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese in response to report of task force, November 1988; testimony of Albert Shanker, president, AFT, before the Senate Labor Committee on S. 2270, Smart Start, May 11, 1988; report to the Governor and Legislature submitted by the NYS Council on Children and Families, "Early Childhood Services in New York State, vol. 1," December 1987, with handwritten commentary by NYSUT associate Donna Stiglmeier, November 1988; related memos.

AFL-CIO publication, "Reaganomics Part II," February 22, 1982; address by president of Carnegie Corporation to Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, "The Trends of the 1980s: Where Are They Leading Us?" 1981; address of Owen Butler, chairman, Subcommittee on Business in the Schools, Committee for Economic Development, July 5, 1986; special issue of State Legislatures re education, 1983; article reprints

Newspaper clippings; Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, January/February 1982, including articles by Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach and the former president of City College (CUNY), Robert Marshak, re the open admissions controversy

Paper, "The Status of Reports on Education in the 1980s," c. 1988

NYSUT Proposal for State Aid and Education Reform in New York State, March 3, 1984; NYSUT Response to Education Reform Initiatives in New York State, January 21, 1984; letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to NY governor Mario Cuomo outlining education reform proposals, December 20, 1983; draft letter to governor's executive assistant Hank Dullea, following up on points raised in meeting; AFT Questions & Answers on Education Reform, (no date).; text of keynote address to Conference on Teacher Preparation, Wesleyan University, June 26-28, 1985, "The Politics of Reform in Teacher Education: Beyond the Apple," Robert Koff, dean, School of Education, State University of New York at Albany; Working Paper No. 4, "Political Myths about Reforming the Teaching Profession," prepared for Education Commission of the States, July 1984; the Toledo Plan, 1982; Educational Research Service report, "Merit Pay for Teachers," 1979; materials re Tennessee Master Teacher Program, 1983; correspondence

Materials for AFT Regional Leadership Conference: Meeting the Challenge of Education Reform, 1983; NYS School Boards Association position paper on school finance reform; "Summaries of Recommendations for the Improvement of School Quality and of Costs of Recommendations for Improved School Quality," complied by Center for Educational Research and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany; materials re Tennessee Master Teacher Program, 1983; materials from California and Virginia; correspondence

Materials for Field Staff Conference on Education Reform, June 23, 1989; Workshop on Education Reform Initiatives, February 10, 1987; The Role of Teacher Unions in School Reform Initiatives, February 10, 1987; confidential summary of School Improvement/Effective Schools Seminar, December 15, 1986; memo to AFT Executive Council from NYSUT president Tom Hobart re New York's statewide educational reform agenda, May 10, 1988

NYSUT Proposal for State Aid and Education Reform in New York State 1984-85; Texas Federation of Teachers survey, Report Card on Reform, 1986; New York State Educational Conference Board draft recommendations to improve public school teaching, December 2, 1985; Education Daily article, "States Seen Usurping Local Power over Education Reform," February 26, 1986; articles re reform

Correspondence re NYSUT locals ready to participate in AFT education reform initiatives

List of nominees

Report prepared for NYSUT Board of Directors, "State Initiatives in Education Reform," March 2-3, 1984; draft memo from Sandy Feldman, "Suggestions for Improving Educational Excellence in New York State," recommending increased teacher involvement in curriculum redesign (no date).; clippings of Albany Sun-Times series, "Education in New York," 1977; statistical charts re costs of education, c. 1978-79

Article reprints; newsletters; Reading Is Fundamental Annual Report, 1988; The Conference Board research report, "Business Leadership: The Third Wave of Education Reform"

October 22, 1991. Reports on U.K. schools; correspondence

Series of booklets summarizing hearings by NYSTA around the state on student testing

State Education Department report, "The 1986 Progress Report on the Regents Statewide Plan for the Development of Postsecondary Education in New York State, 1984"; memos re SED regulations and review of elementary and postsecondary teacher certification, teacher internship program.

"Changing Schools for Changing Needs: The Chancellor's Plan for New York City Public Schools," November 20, 1985; report by Council of Supervisors and Administrators of the City of New York (Local 1, American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO), "Toward Excellence in Urban Public Schools," January 1988; report by Division of Special Education, New York City Board of Education, "Assessment Improvement Plan: School Based Support Teams: Enhanced Model," August 1986

Program for AFT Regional Leadership Conference, "Professionalization of Teaching: Next Steps for Education Reform," March 1-3, 1985, "Peer Review in the Context of Teacher Professionalism," paper presented for the AFT Executive Council, January 1985; draft speech by NYSUT Vice President Antonia Cortese before a forum of the National Commission on Excellence in Teacher Education; (no date).; Michigan State University Department of Teacher Education report, "Research and Evaluation in Teacher Education," April 1987; Summary of NYSUT Policy on the Recommendations of the Commissioner's Task Force on Teacher Education and Certification (1977), November 15, 1985; NYSUT paper, "Does Professional Credentialing Work Against the Establishment of High Standards?" summary and commentary by Patrick Flynn, associate in educational services, NYSUT, November 21, 1985, with attached article reprint from the Atlantic Monthly, "The Case Against Credentialism," by James Fallows, December 1985; related memos; handwritten notes

April 11, 1992. Filled-out workshop evaluation forms

May 5, 1992. Materials for educational conference of Southern Westchester County BOCES, "Moving Toward a Multicultural 21st Century," April 3, 1992; overview of NYSUT school restructuring project; fact sheets re Commissioner's Regulations re parent and teacher participation in school-based decision making, BOCES role in the "new compact" management approach

"Tomorrow's Teachers," report by Holmes Group, April 7, 1986; "Reforming Teacher Education: A Report of the Holmes Group," May 1986; related article reprints and clippings

March, 1992. Workshop materials re assessment methods

November, 1991. NYSUT Report on Task Force on Creating Pathways for New York's Youth, November 1, 1991; cover memo

Presentation by NYSUT associate Pat Flynn to UFT Innovations and Foreign Languages Committee re German model of cooperative learning; related correspondence

NYSUT Guidelines for Agreements on Professional Decision-Making, June 1989; workshop fact sheet explaining agreements; related correspondence

May 9, 1990. Presentation for workshop on shared decision making, including "Schools for the Future: A Working Paper for the 1990 Business/Labor Education Conference," sponsored by NYS AFL-CIO and the Business Council of New York State, Inc.

April 26, 1990. Workshop program; discussion questions

Paper presented at the NYSUT Mid-Hudson Office Leadership Conference, "The Part 100 Regulations and the New Compact," August 1990; fact sheet, "Major Areas of Change in the New Part 100 of the Commissioner's Regulations (effective September 1, 1985)"; memo to the Board of Regents from the State Education Department, "A New Compact for Learning: Improving Public Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Education Results in the 1990s," June 8, 1990; related papers

August, 1990. Paper presented at the NYSUT Elmsford Office Leadership Conference, "Education Reform/Education Restructuring," August 1990; related materials

November 6, 1991. Materials for presentation at the Poughkeepsie City School District Superintendent's Conference Day, "Shared Decision Making and Cognitive Science and School Restructuring," November 8, 1991, including paper, "A Work in Progress: Selections on the Learning Environment and Assessment," prepared by NYSUT associate in educational services Patrick Flynn, and "Toward Enabling & Results-Focused Curricula: Some Guiding Conjectures," by Grant Wiggins

October 16, 1990. Document, "Teacher Centers: Mentor-Teacher Internships: The Fund for Innovation," presented by Pat Flynn, NYSUT associate in educational services, at the October 16, 1990, meeting of Fulton Montgomery Teacher Clusters, with outline of funding

Outline for Education Reform/Effective School Workshop by Patrick Flynn at NYSUT Jamestown Office; agenda; education reform survey results

Workshop materials prepared by NYSUT associate Patrick Flynn for Staff Curriculum Development Network

Correspondence re Challenger Scholarships and others for education students; statement of Thomas Sobol, Commissioner of Education, before the New York State Senate and Assembly Committees on Higher Education re use of high school academic performance in awarding education scholarships, May 25, 1988

Transcripts of radio ads by marketing firm Schnurr & Jackson for NYSUT

Discussion papers for Regents, including 1951, 1975, and 1981; State Education Department memo to superintendents of schools re discussion by Regents of paper "Education for Values" (attached), March 16, 1983

Meeting agendas; resource manual, "What's Right with Public Education in New York State," 1985 (1986 update); correspondence

List of institutional members of New York State Educational Conference Board; outline of presentation, "A State Aid Program for the Eighties…"; brochure, 1979 State Aid Proposal; meeting minutes; fact sheet on state aid to public schools, February 6/January 17, 1978; copies of NYS Senate and Assembly bills re apportionment of public monies to school districts; memorandum re bill; confidential memo to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli noting that efforts to block participation on ECB by state NEA appeared successful, October 30, 1978

Draft slide show script by League of Women Voters of New York State calling for reform of state aid formula, (no date).; NYS Division of the Budget Description of 1980-81 NYS Aid Programs Funded in the General Support for Public Schools Appropriation, April 29, 1980 (revised July 22); memo to district superintendents from State Education Department re the use of income in school wealth measurement, July 1980; letter from NYS Division of Equalization and Assessment recommending revision of local fiscal calendars, June 27, 1980; 1980-81 Equalization School Aid Proposal to School Aid Committee, Educational Conference Board, July 25, 1979; discussion draft paper for ECB, "The Use of Personal Income Data to Modify the Taxable Capacity of School Districts for the Apportionment of School Aid in New York State," May 1979

Printout of database description for study, "The Impact of Income as a Measure of Wealth for State Aid to Education"; treasurer's statement, list of attendees at June 22, 1981, meeting of Educational Conference Board (ECB); agenda; state aid report; minutes of conference board meeting, December 18, 1980; handwritten notes from January 19, 1981, meeting

October 28, 1981. Memos with outline of topics to be covered; handwritten notes

October 19, 1981. Agenda; treasurer's statement; copy of Senate bill re school district budgets, March 2, 1981; copy of Senate bill re occupational training, March 25, 1981; copy of companion Assembly bill, March 3, 1981; Education Daily newsletters, October 7, 13, and 15, 1981

October 1-2, 1981. Draft agenda; Department of Education program financial spreadsheet, FY 1980-82; estimated impact in New York State of president's proposed reductions in federal aid to education, FY 1982; estimated impact on postsecondary student financial aid programs; correspondence; handwritten notes

September 21, 1981. Working papers in educational policy series, no. 1: Tuition Tax Relief: Aid for Non-Public School Children Revisited, June 1981, Center for Educational Research and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany; ECB State Aid Committee Report on Study of Income; meeting agenda; memo re joint meeting of New York Council of University Deans and Educational Conference Board; handwritten notes

September 16, 1981. Outline for study, "The Impact of Income as a Measure of Wealth for State Aid to Education"; related memos

June 22, 1981. Agenda; routine correspondence

May 18, 1981. Minutes of March 23 meeting; text of address by President Reagan re budget, "America's New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery," February 18, 1981; agenda

March 23, 1981. Draft NYS Educational Conference Board position paper on Governor Carey's Ten-Year Plan for Early Payment of State Aid; paper, A Plan to Schedule School Aid Payments and Reduce the Spring Borrowing; memo to ECB urging development of a public relations policy; letter from National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children to NYC Board of Education re Reagan's proposed reduction of aid, March 13; letter re Reagan's proposed 40 percent reduction in school lunch program, "Will Child Nutrition Go by the Wayside?" prepared by NYS School Food Service Association Legislative Committee; School Law News item, New Jersey Finance Scheme Challenged in Court, February 27, 1981; letter to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan from ECB chairman re need to extend deadline for expiration of federal aid, March 9

February 24, 1981. Correspondence re state aid formula; meeting agenda; paper by Coalition for School Finance Reform, "Framework" for a New State Aid Formula

December 18, 1980. Prospectus: Descriptive Analysis of the New York Conference Board, 1935-1980

December 11, 1980. Newspaper by the Citizens Public Expenditure Survey, Inc., CPES Taxpayer, December 1980; newspaper clippings; meeting notice

November 7, 1980. Brochure, A State Aid Proposal for 1980: The New York State Educational Conference Board; minutes of September 16 meeting; treasurer's report

February 26, 1980. Agenda, treasurer's statement

January 14, 1980. 1980 State Aid Proposal, minutes of December 17, 1979, meeting; adopted resolutions, 1979-80, NYS Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc.

December 17, 1979. Final report of the Committee on State Aid; minutes of November 2 meeting

December 10, 1979. Meeting notice

November 2, 1979. Meeting notice

April 4, 1979. Letter to legislators from NYSUT executive vice president re 1979-80 budget, March 29, 1979; meeting agenda

January 16, 1979. Conference Board state aid proposal, 1979; draft of 1979 brochure text, with handwritten editing; minutes of December 7, 1978, meeting; conference board articles of agreement

December 7, 1978. Memos to members of the conference board re state aid

October 10, 1978. Minutes of September 11, 1978, meeting; treasurer's report; handwritten notes of 10/10 meeting; ECB Articles of Agreement

September 11, 1978. Meeting agenda; handwritten notes from meeting; press release re school finance program recommendations by ECB to Regents

February 1, 1978. Brochure, New York State Education Conference Board 1978 State Aid Proposal for Improving the Quality of Public Education; white papers on the State University of New York, the City University, federal aid, other higher education items; treasurer's report

"1987 State Aid Proposal of Educational Conference Board: Goals and Objectives," June 19, 1986; ECB proposal, "Why Increase the New York State Share Toward 50% in 1986-87?" July 1985; draft background report for brochure, "State Aid to Schools, 1987-88," 9/08/86; related background information; meeting agendas; minutes; treasurer's statement

"Educational Reform: A Response by the New York State Educational Conference Board," by Robert Koff, chairman, February 1984; Assembly Republican white paper, "A Multi-Year Program of Public Education Reform"; remarks by Koff at Assembly Speaker's hearing, October 7, 1983; ECB State Aid Committee fact sheet, "Examining Possible State Aid Proposals for 1984-85," November 14, 1983; "Background Information on NYS Educational Conference Board Proposal to Raise 1985-86 State Aid to Schools by $979 Million," January 14, 1985; press release calling for 50-50 split by state in school aid, December 13, 1983; memo re briefing session with Schenectady Gazette editorial board, February 1985; correspondence; handwritten notes; list of officers; treasurer's statement; meeting agendas; minutes

"What's Right with Public Education in New York State Resource Manual 1983"; correspondence; handwritten notes; list of officers; treasurer's statement; meeting agendas; minutes

December 6, 1982. New York State Educational Conference Board committee report on supplementary edition of "What's Right with Public Education," December 1982; treasurer's statement, December 6, 1982; related memos; handwritten notes

October 25, 1982. Second interim report to Regents from chairman of the Task Force on State Aid to the Public Schools re planned recommendations to 1983 legislature; NY State Educational Conference Board articles of agreement, list of members attending September 13, 1982, meeting

September 28, 1982. Educational Conference Board tentative 1983 State Aid Proposal; state aid estimates for 1983-84 operating aid; preliminary report of task force; handwritten notes

September 13, 1982. Agenda for September 13, 1982, meeting

August 10, 1982. Comparison of Major Aspects of State Aid to the Public Schools; letter between BOCES of Cayuga and Onondaga counties and Washington-Warren BOCES, expressing concerns of small rural districts, August 6, 1982; letter from Robert Koff, chair of the NYS Educational Conference Board, to members of Congress, opposing Educational Opportunity and Equity Act of 1982, proposed by President Reagan, June 25, 1982; notice of meeting for August 10, 1982

June 21, 1982. Agenda for June 21, 1982, meeting; memo from Dues Policy Committee, May 17, 1982; list of summary points made by presenters at seminar, July 14-15; attendance lists

May 17, 1982. Bill for radio spots, listing stations, number of spots, and air dates, June 2; summary minutes for May 17 meeting; attendance list for March 15

March 15, 1982. Brochure, State Aide Proposal, the New York State Education Conference Board; paper by Prof. David Wiles and others, "The New York Educational Conference Board," with cover letter to ECB, January 12; report on the Implementation Committee on What's Right with Public Education, February 22; treasurer's statement, March 15

February 16, 1982. Notice of Dues Committee meeting, April 5, 1982; handwritten notes; letter noting Gov. Carey's proposed plan to raise state cost sharing for elementary and secondary schools to 50%, March 2, 1982; handwritten notes

January 18, 1982. Memo to ECB from Committee on What's Right with Public Education re recommendations for Phase II, January 18; agenda for January 18, 1982, meeting

January 11, 1982. Printed booklet by State Education Department, Federal Legislation and Education in New York State, February 1977

December 21, 1981. Comments by Scotia-Glenville Central Schools re Recommended Conference Board State Aid Program , 1982-83, December 14, 1981; proposed recommendations from State Education Department, November 10, 1981

November 16, 1981. Handwritten notes; memo from Dues Committee

Printed brochure, 1983 State Aid Proposal, New York State Educational Conference Board; Statement by Albert Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Related Issued [sic] Before the Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, September 27, 1977; Statement by Gordon M. Ambach, President, the University of the State of New York and Commissioner of Education, before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education, September 22, 1977; State of New York Department of Audit and Control printed publication, Federal Revenue Sharing Information, effective January 1, 1977; printout of estimated impact of ECB state aid proposal on 1983-84 state operating aid by district; newspaper clippings

Draft NYSUT statement re federal aid to education; letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to NYS Commissioner of Education Ewald Nyquist re NYSUT position on federal aid, November 13, 1974; summary statement by Nyquist on behalf of several education organizations before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, May 22, 1973

March 2, 1987. Minutes of January 5, 1987, meeting; agenda for March 2 meeting; ECB report, "Three-Way comparison: An Analysis of the 1987-88 School Aid Proposals," February 1987

January 6, 1986. Treasurer's statement; ECB statement/news release, "ECB Seeks to Recruit and Keep Good Teachers," January 13, 1986; January 6 meeting agenda; minutes of December 2, 1985, meeting; ECB state aid proposal for 1986-87, January 1986; statistical tables re operating aid

April 14, 1986. Treasurer's statement; letter to the editor of the Albany Times-Union from chair of ECB rebutting school funding editorial, March 7, 1986; charts, graphs, and statistical tables showing general financial support for public schools, 1985-66 and 1986-87 school years; newspaper clippings

December 2, 1985. Detailed agenda; NYSSBA (New York State School Boards Association) draft legislative bulletin, "Regents Propose $679 Million Aid Increase"; draft background information on ECB proposal to raise 1986-87 state share of school expenditures to 46 percent

February 27, 1986. ECB Draft #2, Recommendations to Improve Public School Teaching; comments on draft from New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc., February 11, 1986;

November 4, 1985. Minutes of November 4 meeting; brochure by ECB, "Preliminary State Aid Proposal, 1986-87"; brochure by NYS PTA, "New York State Public Funds for Nonpublic Schools: The Real Story," third edition, update 1984-85; policy statement by Committee for Education Funding, "The Effects of the Gramm Rudman Deficit Control Act on Education"; minutes of September 9 meeting with attached treasurer's statement and statement to Regents Legislative Conference by chair of Coalition for School Finance Reform, September 6; table by NYSUT showing percent increases in salary, 1984-85 and 1985-86

September 9, 1985. Memo from ECB Subcommittee on Teacher Recommendations re suggested initiatives for recruitment and retention, November 4, 1985; meeting minutes; preliminary state aid proposal for 1986-87; remarks of Robert H. Koff, chairperson, New York State Educational Conference Board, at the Regents 1985 Legislative Conference; ECB special memo, "New York's School Aid Wealth Measures Expected to Underaid 75 Percent of the Districts in the 1985-86 School Year"

August 12, 1985. Meeting agenda; memo from NYS School Boards Association re results of discussion on teacher improvements (preparation, recruitment, retention), August 20, 1985; "The Politics of Reform in Teacher Education: Beyond the Apple," keynote address by Robert H. Koff, presented at the Conference on Teacher Preparation, sponsored by Connecticut Department of Education, June 16, 1985; confidential draft, "Goals for Educating Teachers as Professionals," Interim Report #2, Holmes Group Standards Development: A Revised Working Paper (from an address by Henry W. Holmes, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education), May 30, 1985; handwritten notes

August 26, 1987. Meeting agenda; ECB Background Report: State Aid Proposal 1987-88, December 11, 1986; Workbook on NYS Public School Aid Formulas for Education Writers Workshop of New York State ECB, December 11, 1986; Monroe County "Save Harmless" School Districts 1986 Yearbook, by Cooperative Organization for Public Education (COPE), A Coalition for Operating Aid Equality, presented at the Legislators' Breakfast, December 6, 1986; position statement of the Association of Flat Grant School Districts of New York State, May 1987; presentation by the association to the forum of the State Aid Committee of the ECB, July 21, 1987; presentation to the forum by the Rural Schools Program, Cornell University, July 21, 1987; "The Myth of Save-Harmless State Support for Public Education in Rockland County," July 1987

May 4, 1987. Meeting agenda; minutes of March 2 meeting; handwritten notes

May 9, 1988. Financial statements; minutes of January 11, 1988, meeting; letter from president of New York Association of School Psychologists asking for more information about ECB and requesting consideration for association's membership on board, March 24, 1988; booklet, "The Right Start: Promises and Problems in Early Childhood Education," a position paper of the New York State School Boards Association, 1986

November 2, 1987. ECB resource manual, "What's Right with Public Education in New York State," 1985; paper, "Major Educational Conference Board Recommendations for 1988-89," including "Why New York State Must Increase State Aid to Schools"; ECB Background Report, "State Aid Proposal 1988-89"; PTA Annual Convention program, November 6-9, 1987; handwritten notes

September 29, 1987. Paper, "Proposal for Educational Issues Project," re creation of a series of issues statements to "stimulate and challenge the educational policy thinking of candidates for both state and federal elective office," developed by ECB

December 1, 1986. Meeting agenda; treasurer's statement; minutes of November 2 meeting; ECB Background Report, "State Aid Proposal 1987-88"; memo re Education Writers Conference and ECB press conference

December 11, 1986. ECB Workbook on NYS Public School Aid Formulas for Education Writers Workshop, December 11, 1986; press release, "ECB Seeks Increase in State's Share of School Aid," December 11, 1986; workshop agenda

November 3, 1986. Testimony of NYSUT regarding the Regents Hearings on Proposed Amendments to the Certification Requirements for Elementary and Secondary Academic Areas; related correspondence

January 5, 1986. Meeting agenda; memos to Education Writers Committee; ECB report, "Three-Way Comparison: An Analysis of the 1986-87 School Aid Proposals (ECB, Governor, Regents)," January 31, 1986

NYSUT memos re early childhood issues, June-July 1988; agenda of January 11, 1988, ECB meeting

Memos, including recommendations for 1973 legislative program; Gallup poll results re public attitudes toward public education; ECB position papers/flyers, "Why Should the State Appropriate Additional Money for Public Schools?" and "The Modern Educational Program Is Immensely Complex"; draft paper, "Recent Trends in School Finance," prepared for ECB, July 12, 1972

County aid ratios based on an equalized 50% state sharing formula; memos re recommendations

As above

December 16, 1977. State Education Department press releases; meeting agenda; draft of promotional flyer for state aid proposal, December 1977

November 10, 1977. NYSUT position statement re Education for All Handicapped Children; Federal Register text of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare regulations on nondiscrimination on basis of handicap, May 4, 1977; minutes of January 17, 1977, meeting

March 30, 1976. Handwritten notes of meeting; ECB brochure, "Education in New York State: Proud History, Uncertain Future, Let's Stop the Erosion: School Aid and Cost of Living

January 17, 1977. Meeting agenda; minutes of December 15, 1976, meeting; memo, targeting aid losses for 36 wealthiest districts

February 17, 1976. Legislative budget hearing statement by James V. Vetro, NYS School Boards Association and NYS ECB, February 4, 1976

January 20, 1976. NYS ECB brochure, "Quality Education or ?"; letter from Suffolk County BOCES to ECB Committee on State Aid re formula proposals, January 9, 1976; related correspondence

December 2, 1975. Meeting agenda; major recommendation of the Regents for legislative Action, 1976; report of the State Aid Committee of the New York State Educational Conference Board, recommending legislative agenda; 1976 state aid strategies; spreadsheet comparing salary increases of teachers with workers in manufacturing, consumer price increase, by year, 1968-75; New York State School Boards Association Legislative Bulletin, January 1, 1976

November 8, 1976. Report, "Effect of Educational Conference Board State Aid Committee Proposal on 1976-77 State Aid"; meeting agenda; tables comparing projections

June 22, 1976. Report by NYS Division of the Budget, "Educational Finance and the New York State Real Property Tax: The Inescapable Relationship," May 1976; meeting agenda; memo from Hicksville School Superintendent to Educational Conference Board, "Outline Proposal for Revision of State Aid to School Districts," June 21, 1976; The CPES Mini-Taxpayer, special public pension edition, published by Citizens Public Expenditure Survey, May 1976; handwritten notes

September 14, 1976. Report to the Educational Conference Board by Special Committee on State Aid, "A Proposed Plan for the Support of Public Education to New York State," September 7, 1976; cover memo

October 9, 1975. Report to the Educational Conference Board on 1976 State Aid Strategies; ECB proposed 1975 legislative program; official proceedings, NYSUT third annual Representative Assembly, March 20-23, 1975; third draft, BOCES working paper on school finance reform, 1976-77, presented at Educational Conference Board Research Subcommittee meeting, October 9, 1975; NYSUT memo re revising state aid formula, October 8, 1975; memo to Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman from Clarence H. Tompkins re Report on School Financing of the State Task Force on Education, April 11, 1975; related correspondence

March 13, 1975. Proposed ECB campaign for increased state aid to education, March 21, 1975

September 10, 1975. Meeting agenda; handwritten notes; statement by Thomas Y. Hobart, president, NYSUT, at the Regents Legislative Conference, September 10, 1975

October 28, 1975. Notice of meeting

ECB discussion draft, "State Aid Proposal for the 1980s," November 2, 1979; draft report of the Committee on State Aid, December 4, 1979; handwritten notes of 11/2/79 ECB meeting; minutes of January 17, 1977, meeting; ECB press release calling for increase in state share of school funding, September 7, 1979; State Education Department Preliminary Report on Teaching as a Profession: Teacher Competence; paper presented for the ECB to the NYS Board of Regents on the Financing of Public Schools in New York State, September 7, 1979.

Meeting minutes, 1975-76; NYSUT memo re ECB state aid proposal, October 13, 1976; Major Recommendations of the Regents for Legislative Action 1975; related memos, reports, and brochures re state aid

As above

Final report of the Committee on State Aid, "State Aid Report for the New York State Educational Conference Board," December 1979; meeting agendas and minutes; draft discussion paper, "Targets for School Aid Reform in New York State," July 6, 1979; background history of the board

Articles of agreement; agendas and minutes; letters to Governor Hugh Carey and legislative leaders from ECB chair Janet Richardson re funding formula to educate children with handicapping conditions; correspondence re public financing of education (income vs. property tax); statement at Executive Budget hearing by James V. Vetro, ECB liaison, February 1

Meeting agendas and minutes; statement by James V. Vetro, liaison, NYS Educational Conference Board, at hearing before the Senate Education Committee, February 7; memo from NYS School Boards Association to school board presidents re Educational Conference Board's 1977 legislative state aid program recommending equalization of operating expense formula; letter from board to president of New York Educators Association (NYEA, affiliated with NEA) rejecting application for organization's membership on board, with attached letter of application, December; list of organizations having applied for membership, 1967 – 1977; correspondence from angry taxpayers in response to ad opposing state cuts in aid to schools

Text of decision in Levittown v. Nyquist (1974?); Educational Conference Board 1978-79 State Aid Proposal (report prepared by NYSUT); New York State Educational Conference Board Proposal for 1977-78 State Aid to Public Schools, January 1977; meeting agendas and minutes

Memo, outline of proposal for revising state aid to school districts; correspondence commenting on plan; report to ECB Special Committee on State Aid, "A Proposed Plan for the Support of Public Education in New York State," September 7, 1976; Working Paper on School Finance Reform, 1976-77, presented at ECB Research Subcommittee meeting, October 9, 1975; meeting agendas and minutes; handwritten notes

Printed brochures for1984,1980, and 1979 state aid proposals; cover letters to legislators; list of legislators who responded

Statement by ECB chair Janet Richardson to the Assembly Education Committee Hearing re proposed state aid, May 20; statement by Richardson to Regents Legislative Conference, September 10; statement by NYSUT president Tom Hobart to Assembly Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, re local assistance portion of Executive Budget, February 12; hand-delivered letters to Gov. Hugh Carey and legislative leaders requesting meeting; letter to Richardson from Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut, discussing state aid, blaming Senate for impasse, July 28; ECB proposed 1975 legislative program; meeting agendas and minutes; resolutions

Meeting agendas and minutes; statement of principle re state financing of education; proposed 1975 legislative program; agreement with consultant G. Howard Goold; correspondence with NYS School Boards Association, legislative leaders

Draft articles of agreement establishing conference board; meeting agendas and minutes; correspondence

Meeting minutes; statement by chairman re "Free Education Centennial Day"; statement re need to increase state financing, "A Growing Financial Imperative"; correspondence

Minutes; interim report by the Committee on the Constitutional convention; correspondence

1971: "Basic State Fiscal and Elementary and Secondary School Data, New York State"; "Implications of Complete State Financing of Public Schools"; "The Local Fiscal Crisis, Full State Assumption and Equal Educational Opportunity"; "Education, Economics and the Law; 1969: "1969-1970 Review of Public School Financing Policy in New York State" (unrelated slides removed to Kheel Center photo collection)

Minutes; press release calling on legislature to remove spending ceiling on operating expenses; memo re reorganization of school districts

1964 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State: Staff Study: Ability, Effort and Resources in Relation to Public Education, with cover sheet, "Needs and Resources for Public Education in New York; 1964 Report and 1965 Legislative Program"; correspondence commenting on report

Meeting agendas and minutes; press release calling for more money from the state; report

Minutes; review of staff proposals re school financing

Booklets and brochure, "Legislative Program 1961" and "A New Approach to School Finance: 1961 Review of Fiscal Policy in New York State," with staff studies; press release calling for more state support; minutes; correspondence

Report, "Maintaining the Agreed Upon Balance as Between State and Local Support"; memo re matters requiring long-range study re public school finance; minutes; confidential report re meeting with Gov. Rockefeller and legislative leaders

Brochure, "A Vital Message for All Citizens of New York State interested in Children and the Future"; summary of the board's major fiscal proposals for 1959; booklet, "The School Budget and School Quality: 1959 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State"; booklet, "Are New York State Schools Good Enough? A Study Prepared by the New York State Educational Conference Board"; recommendations for legislative action

1959 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State Staff Study No. 1: "Cost of Living, Standard of Living, and Community Characteristics Related to the Purchasing Power of the Educational Dollar"; No. 2: "Public Tests of School Quality"; No. 3: "Government Costs and Tax Revenues"; No. 4: "The Involvement of Staff and Public in the Development of Policy and Budget"; No. 5: "Trends in School Expenditures and Tax Rates and the Stability of State Aid"; 1964 staff studies 1 & 2: "Public School Expenditures and Revenues" and "Resources and Taxation in New York"; "Staff Studies on Constitutional Provisions for Public Education in New York State," February 1958

Minutes; letter from Nelson Rockefeller asserting belief in strong state government responsibility for education, need for expansion of student financial aid; college education for every qualified student seeking it; report, "Toward More Quality Education: 1958 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State"; "Staff Studies on Constitutional Provisions for Public Education in New York State," February 1958

Report, "1957 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State: State and Local Support of the Foundation Program"; papers, "The Constitution and the Public Schools" and "Educational Growth and the New York State Constitution"; subcommittee report of the Tax Relief Committee of the Nassau Suffolk School Boards; minutes; correspondence

Reports, "Quality in Public Education and the Local Unit of School Government: A Review of Public Policy Relative to School Districts" and "1955 Review of Fiscal Policy for Public Education in New York State – Part II: The State Aid Program and Evolving Educational Needs"; press release, "Evaluation of Heald Commission Report," re state financing formula; summary of Heald Commission proposals

Minutes; articles of agreement; reports

Reports: "What Do Good Schools Do for Children?" and "The Price of Good Schools"; minutes

Minutes; "Analysis of Public School Expenditure Trends in New York State"; other reports re funding; memos re importance of education

September 9, 1980. Draft report by Long Island Educational Conference Board, An Analysis of "Study of Cost Reduction Opportunities for the Action Committee of Long Island, Inc.," done by Cresap, McCormick and Paget, management consultants, in the Sayville Union Free School District and Syosset Central School District, fall 1980, and cover letter from Santelli; minutes, "Review and Report," re meeting of review panel to discuss report

Report by Cresap, McCormack and Paget re cost reduction opportunities in the Syosset school district, November 20, 1979

Report, "A Review of Two School District Management Studies," prepared for the Long Island Educational Conference Board, fall 1980; SUNY Albany report, "A Study of the Use of an Expanded Tax Base Approach to School Finance in the Mohawk Region: A Final Report Prepared for the Herkimer BOCES," November 1, 1982; proposal for a regional finance study for Suffolk County school districts to be conducted by the Long Island Regional Planning Board, March 10, 1982; related correspondence

Report by management consultants to the Syosett Central School District, "Study of Cost Reduction Opportunities for the Action Committee for Long Island, Inc," November 20, 1979; letter from Long Island Educational Conference Board re impact study to evaluate consultant recommendations, May 27, 1980; materials evaluating recommendations; newspaper clippings

Report, "A Review of Two School District Management Studies," prepared for the Long Island Educational Conference Board, fall 1980

As above, with handwritten notes

As above, with handwritten notes

Memo from NYSUT Vice President Antonia Cortese asking for cooperation in limiting cost of conferences; letters to potential keynote speakers; camera-ready logos and halftones advertising conference; poster; miscellaneous materials

Flyer for 1982 NYSUT Annual Teacher Institute at State University at Plattsburgh; letter from Santelli to NYSUT vice president Toni Cortese noting dwindling numbers in attendance and even fewer first-time participants, suggestions for improvements, September 23, 1981

July 16-27, 1979. Agenda; letter from Plattsburgh professor of education to NYSUT Vice President Cortese re future of institute, urging return to two-week program, August 18, 1978

July 25 - August 5, 1977. Agenda and related materials; correspondence

Agenda

Surveys of topics of interest for conferences

October 14, 1983. Agenda and related materials

November 5, 1983. Routine correspondence

April 6, 1984. Program; correspondence; photos removed

March 24, 1984.

March 9, 1984. Financial report

November 5, 1983. Survey results

October 14, 1983. Financial report; routine correspondence

May 2, 1984. Workshop descriptions; financial report; routine correspondence

April 6, 1984. Program; financial report; routine correspondence

November 5, 1983. Program; routine correspondence

October 20, 1983. Program; routine correspondence

May 3, 1984. Program; financial materials; routine correspondence

March 31, 1984. Program; routine correspondence

March 21, 1983. Program, noting Matilda Cuomo as keynote speaker on "What's Right with Education"; routine correspondence

March 15, 1985. Program; financial materials; routine correspondence

March 25, 1985. Program; routine correspondence

March 15, 1985. Program, noting keynote speaker TV personality Steve Allen; financial materials; routine correspondence

May 9, 1985. Routine materials

November 12, 1984. Evaluation forms

October 12, 1984. Press release announcing workshop re merit pay

April 18, 1985. Financial materials; routine correspondence

March 17, 1985. Program; evaluation forms; routine correspondence

October 11, 1984. Agenda; financial records; routine correspondence

May 11, 1985. Press release re program; related correspondence

May 9, 1985. Agenda; related materials

October 22, 1984. Memos re attendance by Al Shanker; planning meeting announcement

Program; agenda, routine correspondence

April 3, 1986. Budget summary; press release announcing Alex Haley (author of Roots) as keynote speaker

April 4, 1986. Program re keynote speaker author Alex Haley; budget summary; correspondence

March 14, 1986. Program, featuring panel discussion, "Censorship in the Schools"; list of participating school associations, committee members; handwritten notes

March 21, 1986. Budget summary; correspondence; program

March 13, 1986. Poster re keynote speaker, Al Shanker; related materials

November 1, 1985. Agenda; poster; invitations; evaluation forms

Financial data by district re stress and time management workshops

May 7, 1986. Poster re stress management; related materials

September 25, 1986. Correspondence with consultants re stress management talk

May 8, 1986. Poster, invitation re stress and teacher empowerment talk, financial materials

November 15, 1985. Invitation, poster, biographical materials re speaker; related correspondence

May 29, 1986. Poster re teacher empowerment; financial records

May 6, 1986. Program; poster re humor; financial records

April 24, 1986. Poster re demographic imperatives; related materials

May 28, 1986. Poster re keynote speaker Al Shanker; related materials

November 8, 1985. Steering committee minutes, September 19, 1985; program; related materials

April 26, 1986. Steering committee minutes, February 27, 1986; program

Flyers; program, "Prescription for the '80s: The Survival of Public Education," May 1981; correspondence re cancellation of 1982-83 conferences; re 1986 conference

June 6, 1981. Agenda; list of chairs and regional representation; memo to Vice President Toni Cortese expressing concern over adequacy of program budget, June 5, 1981; post-conference financial report

May 26, 1982. Financial reports; correspondence

May 24, 1983. Agenda; invitation; correspondence

May 30, 1984. Agenda; list of conferences; thumbnail reports of chairs from regional meetings; suggestions for next year; list of responsibilities of chairs; proposed budget for 1984-85 educational conferences; financial report; correspondence; flyers

June 4, 1985. Financial reports; graphs showing change in attendance 1980-1985; list of chairs and regional representation; guidelines on vendor access to NYSUT activities

Papers prepared by NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services on class size, teacher evaluation, auxiliary personnel in the classroom, alternative salary structures, alternative schools, instructional innovation and experimentation, school volunteer programs, accountability in education; related materials and correspondence.

Memos re topics for 11/12-13/80 meeting; outline of issues for Local Presidents' Meeting, Elmsford, January 15, 1980; outline of issues for E.D.s 17 & 18 meeting, March 7, 1978

Filled-out forms re research department training; correspondence

Description of program, June 21, 1989; printed brochures; related correspondence

American Federation of Teachers Educational Research and Dissemination Summer Institute announcements; related correspondence

Correspondence re inservice program; issues papers; AFT proposal to American Can Company Foundation for teacher recruitment incentive/internship project, October 1985; article reprints; training session agenda, 1983; newsletter updates

Executive summary re AFT program for National Institute of Education grant; correspondence; evaluation forms

Facilitative correspondence

Agenda for December 7-9, 1984, meeting; letter summarizing meeting, October 19, 1983, memo to NYSUT officials discussing program, March 3, 1983; related correspondence; handwritten notes

Materials on classroom management; memos re project expansion; handwritten notes

Evaluation forms; facilitative correspondence

Training materials; handwritten notes

July 14, 1984. Correspondence, expense vouchers

Newsletter updates on program; memos from school districts across the U.S.; article reprints on effective teaching; related materials

December 13-15, 1985. Agenda; article reprints and other teaching materials; site coordinators' reports; handwritten notes

September 28-29, 1984. Discussion outline for meeting; NYSUT publication, "Some Helpful Information for Teachers," including guidelines on maintaining discipline by the NYC Board of Education

Letters inviting local presidents to attend training

NYSUT Local Leaders' Guide 1985-86; memo re potential new sites for program, June 17, 1985; packet of article reprints on teaching techniques; list of sites

March 29-30, 1985. Agenda; NYSUT Local Leaders' Guide 1983-84; handwritten notes; article reprint on effective classroom control

Materials on teaching methods; local site coordinators' progress reports

"Publicity," packet of clippings and article reprints collected by AFT Educational Issue Department re ER+D program; list of local sites and coordinators as of June 30, 1986;

Form letters sent to locals throughout the state, describing training program; comments on training by past participants

Form letters responding to expressions of interest in training from locals; list of sites

July, 1986. Post-session form letters to local presidents and facilitative correspondence; publicity packets (article reprints and clippings)

Fact sheet describing program as a professional improvement project; based on a research and observational framework; memos from Harry Lampman, NYSUT associate in research and educational services, re program updates, training logistics; list of locals involved in project

NYSUT Information Bulleting discussing NYS Mentor-Teacher Internship Program; proposed revisions to Commissioner's Regulations re mentor-teacher internship programs; site reports; correspondence

July, 1986. Handwritten evaluations re "strengths" of the week's workshop

September 27-28, 1986. Meeting agenda; list of participants

May 31 - June 1, 1986. Meeting agendas; list of program sites; memos; paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, "Bridging the Gap: The AFT Educational Research and Dissemination Program," April 1983

NYSUT booklet, "Some Helpful Information for Teachers," (no date)., c. 1976; memo from Lampman re upcoming meeting, with discussion outline; handwritten notes

September 18-19, 1987. Summary of meeting from Harry Lampman, September 29, 1987; related memos

AFT description of Visiting Practitioner Program, A Teacher-University Collaboration Project, February 1985; report, "Experiences of a Visiting Practitioner at Stanford University," by Rudi Faltus, San Francisco teacher; Teacher Researcher Linker Study interview protocol, by Far West laboratory for Educational Research and Development, May 1985

Memo from regional coordinators, forwarded to director of research and educational services Charles Santelli, noting concerns about the intensive nature of ER&D training July 19, 1986; memo from vice president Antonia Cortese to NYSUT Executive Committee recommending increase in ER&D budget for 1985-86; memos re program updates; article reprints on multiculturalism and mainstreaming

Comments from participants on ER& training; handwritten notes; list of participating sites; letter of complaint about slowness of travel reimbursement, with reply from Harry Lampman, December 22, 1987; summary of meeting of program coordinators, September 18-19; summary of meeting of January 30-31; routine correspondence

Assessment of service needs of NYSUT locals, 1984-85; meeting agenda; routine correspondence; annual report, 1983-84; article reprints from American Educator; booklet, The Effective Principal: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Schools, U.S. Department of Education, disseminated by Mid-Atlantic Center for Race Equity, School of Education, American University, June 1983

January 30-31, 1987. Summary of meeting; related routine correspondence

January, 1987. Site reports; research topic status report; agenda for November 22, 1986, meeting; instructional materials, article reprints

March 27-29, 1987. List of attendees; expense vouchers, facilitative (routine) correspondence

Letters to teachers associations around the state inviting participation, including description of program

Suggested topics for seminar materials, with comments by participants (?); lesson plans for National Science Week

Agendas; outline of initial expectations for local site coordinators; paper, "What Staff Developers Need to Know about Adult Learners," by Nancy Gadbow and Marcia Nabut; article reprints; seminar materials

August 9-16, 1987. List of participating sites; agenda; correspondence, incl. form letters for teachers who have completed training

Manual master pages for duplicating

Correspondence; list of sites; directory

Correspondence

Directory of local site coordinators; correspondence re revisions

Action plan; correspondence

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Correspondence re training sessions in NYC; site report; diagram of NYC Teacher Centers Consortium training schedule

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Rochester Teacher Center Partial Listing of Semester II Workshops; correspondence; site report; handwritten paper

Coordinator's report; correspondence; handwritten paper

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Correspondence; outline of training session for August 5-12, 1990, "Initial Expectations for Local Site Coordinators"

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper; implementation action plan

Presenter's manual for cooperative small groups workshop; coordinator's report; site report; district-wide master plan; handwritten paper

Coordinator's report; site report; correspondence; minutes of regional coordinators meeting

Guides for new and substitute teachers by the Newburgh Teachers' Association, with cover letter

Coordinator's report; handwritten paper

Correspondence; handwritten paper

Cookbook (simple home recipes), "Food for Thought"; correspondence; site report; handwritten paper

Site reports; coordinator's report

Coordinator's reports

Coordinator's reports; handwritten paper