Suffolk Regional Office: Correspondence, 1988

Memos re analysis of proposed health insurance plan at Suffolk County Community College; details of Bay Shore settlement; Excellence in Teaching agreement between Connetquot Teachers Association and Connetquot Public School District; water sample test results for A. T. Morrow School in Central Islip, showing lead levels exceeding EPA Maximum Contaminant Level at several locations; Health and Safety Needs Assessment, Shoreham-Wading River School District, conducted by New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), funded by a grant to NYSUT from the NYS Department of Labor Hazard Abatement Board; correspondence re argument over field trip at Islip public schools involving five fifth-grade teachers, a school board member, the superintendent of schools, and the NYSUT legal office and field representative; correspondence re Central Islip Teachers Association complaint re OSHA Hazard Communication Standard under Right to Know law; correspondence from NYCOSH and others re Sayville Junior High School science lab ventilation problem, simple recommendations for remediation; memo from Jim Conti to Lindenhurst teachers association re legal definition of "absence"; related case law re attendance policy; memo from NYSUT Regional Staff Director John DeGregorio re proposal for Suffolk County Task Force on Education and the Economy; memo from DeGregorio advocating for promotions for staff secretaries, noting he had held back on request based on policy guidelines from NYSUT officials that had not been equitably applied; confidential memo re recognition of North Babylon Teachers Organization; letter from president of Elwood Secretarial Association to NYSUT field representative Sy Horowitz, expressing concern over inequity between secretarial and custodial salaries, noting plans to undertake job evaluation study; teacher salary schedule for each school, based on step level, degree, and years experience