NYSUT Officers Meeting, 1997

February 25, 1997. Agenda; letter from National Committee on Pay Equity, thanking Hobart for contribution; letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Change, thanking NYSUT for contribution; letter from Hobart to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, noting contribution of $100 in honor of Al Shanker, then a patient, March 18, 1994; letter from Center for the Disabled, thanking Hobart for financial contribution and serving as vice chair for the Capital Region Salutes Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, December 31, 1996; letter from Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Buffalo Chapter, thanking Hobart for participating in conference, February 10, 1997; update, with attached newspaper clippings, from the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), December 31, 1996; Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the NYSUT Education and Learning Trust, with cover letter from attorneys, January 29, 1997; articles on independent contracting; list of LAPP grants by local teacher associations; list of previous winners of Apple Awards, with suggested names for 1997 (Sen. Ted Kennedy and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich); memo re equipment requests, February 25; memo re management salary increases; Draft Resolution on Opposition to California Proposition 209 Which Seeks to End Affirmative Action; document, Possible Options for Costs Savings in Special Education Programs; draft Policy Statement in Support of Accreditation of Schools of Education: the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education; draft comparison of options to charter school; newspaper clippings from local newspapers, with handwritten cover letter from member (Mt. Vernon Federation of Teachers), expressing concern for strategic response, February 12; "What Every Teacher Should Know: A handbook of helpful information from NYSUT," revised July 1995; "Finding your way: new members learn what 'union' means," New York Teacher edition for new teachers, including graphic depiction of certification process; minutes of ED 17 meeting of January 8; memo to AFT Executive Council re U.S. Supreme Court consideration of Aguilar v. Felton; summary of building representative survey by Hart research