NYSUT Officers Meeting, 2001

October 19, 2001. Agenda; memo re mail security procedures in response to anthrax attacks, October 18; list of public charter school applications; Public Employees Federation (PEF) 2001 Convention Yearbook; Albany Public School United Employees (A.P.S.U.E.) memo re matching fund for contributions for 9/11 relief; similar letter from Hobart on behalf of NYSUT; letter to PEF from Sandra Feldman, president of AFT, re contribution of $90,000 from AFT for 9/11 families, September 25; Executive Council Resolution On the Events of September 11 and the War Against Terror; agenda of AFT Executive Council of October 16; agenda and minutes of AFT Executive Committee of October 15; letters re AFT appointments; Syracuse property tax exemption fact sheet, with cover memo to Tom Hobart, October 5; letters from AFT president Sandra Feldman to various locals, congratulating them on achieving 25 years of affiliation; letter to SUNY chancellor Robert King from United University Professions president William Scheuerman expressing concern over disciplinary action against chair of Maritime's governing body, October 9; correspondence with prospective teacher re teaching demonstrations required as part of job interviews in Westchester school districts, April; Statement by Ralph G. Neas, People for the American Way, September 13, 2001, denouncing harassment of American Muslims, with attached press release, "Statement by People for the American Way President Ralph G. Neas on Divisive Comments by Religious Right Leaders," September 13, and partial transcript of comments (between Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson) from September 13, 2001, edition of "700 Club," that U.S. got what it deserved, blaming "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians the ACLU, People for the American Way"; attached newspaper clippings quoting from 700 Club transcript and noting concern by civil liberties groups over change in attitudes re privacy, September 15