February 28-March 1, 1997. Agenda; president's report; report of the second vice president; report of secretary treasurer, with financial statements; personnel activity; membership report; requests for affiliation; nomination for SRP Employee of the Year; Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the NYSUT Education and Learning Trust; draft Policy Statement in Support of Accreditation of Schools of Education: The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education; list of locals with membership dues arrears as of fiscal year ending 8/31/96; proposed dues for 1997-98 and 1998-99; NYSUT Constitutional Amendment: Article VI: Dues; new position request: Rochester Building Superintendent; Committee on Local Administration document, Best Practices of NYSUT Locals; printed pages of NYSUT web site; memo from Tom Hobart to NYSUT Board of Directors and staff re death of Al Shanker, February 24, 1997; letter to the editor from Tom Hobart against the privatization (contracting out) of school bus services by school districts, noting poor safety record, lack of accountability to taxpayers; speech by Bob Chase, president of the National Education Association, to the National Press Club, "The New NEA: Reinventing Teacher Unions for a New Era," February 5, 1997; editorial in Schenectady Daily Gazette, eulogizing Al Shanker, praising his common sense; press release, News from the Senate Republican Majority, re proposed school property tax freeze, February 25, 1997; Division of Research and Educational Services monthly report; article from New York Teacher re tribe-state dispute at St. Regis Mohawk Elementary School; New York Times article re use of retired teachers to help with strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns