NYSUT Executive Committee Meeting, 1996

May 16, 1996. Agenda; President's Report; minutes of April 18 meeting; draft report for discussion on selected proposals for a 12-month school year; discussion paper, "Principles of School Report Cards" (evaluations of schools); report by Committee of 100 (NYSUT Legislative Department), "New York State Tax Cuts: Promise or Peril?" asserting that policy of reducing income taxes since 1987 had failed to produce jobs or improve the state economy while increasing local property taxes to make up for loss in state aid; report on state aid, "Committee of 100"; NYSUT Briefing Bulletin, "Regents Vote to Replace RCTs [Regents Competency Tests] with Regents Exams," May 1996; press release from self-described "New York's largest taxpayer organization," CHANGE New York, "Teachers, Not Pupils, Get Most Out of School Aid, CHANGE-NY Analysis Finds," May 9; NYSUT Legislative Update re pension supplementation; Small City Budget Vote and Contingency Budget Provisions; draft FY 1997 Education Budget: President Seeks Education Investment within Balanced Budget Plan, Congressional Leaders Cut Education in Their Budget Plan, with comparison of provisions of president's and Republicans' budgets; text of AP article, "Teachers' Union President Quietly Runs a 'Juggernaut' in Albany"; memo re preliminary 3020-a reform study; draft executive summary, Analysis of EAI's [Education Alternatives, Inc.] Proposals to Wappingers Central School District, prepared by NSYUT Division of Research and Educational Services