NYSUT Officers Meeting, 1997

March 25, 1997. Agenda; Zogby New York Poll (a monthly series), re voter perceptions of elected officials, schools, March 1997; newspaper clipping re criticism of tax exemptions granted by Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) as burden on school districts, tax payers; materials re Officers' Retreat; materials re NYSUT/ILR-Cornell Leadership Institute; tentative speakers and program for 1997 Representative Assembly; memo from the National Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty (PEARL) to member organizations re signing on to an amicus brief in Coles v. Cleveland Board of Education, challenging Ohio Federal District Court's allowing school board to open meeting with prayer; memo re amicus brief in Swanson v. Guthrie Independent School District No. I-1, urging affirmation of decision by Federal District Court of Western Oklahoma, upholding school board's decision to require student to attend full time, rejecting demand by parents who home-schooled their daughter to allow her to attend selected classes