Nassau Legal Correspondence, 1984

Memos re efforts by Long Beach City School District, with the support of the local, to rid itself of having to maintain a public library because it was too big a drain on the city's limited taxing authority; determination by state Department of Labor that teacher in Baldwin Central School District was discriminated against in retaliation for asserting rights under Right to Know law, referral of matter to Attorney General; letter requesting legal assistance from union for retirees of Elmont School District, whose terms of health insurance premium payments were being changed; correspondence re dispute between teacher with epilepsy and Uniondale Public Schools/Union Free School District; request for legal assistance in harassment case against Hempstead teacher alleging anti-semitism and racism; timeline, memo, and related documents re part-time teacher seeking full-time status; memo re past president of Uniondale Teachers Association, accused of embezzling union funds, who sent out an appeal for his defense fund to teachers he was supervising, question of legality of solicitation; tenure question in Oyster Bay; memos re termination of a probationary physics teacher for academic weakness; memos by Uniondale school administrators re probationary teacher who was dismissed, indicating that satisfactory performance evaluations would need to be revised to support dismissal; memo re East Meadow tenured teacher who was ordered to take a psychological test or face insubordination (3020a) charges; memo re Manhasset contract, changing unlimited paid sick leave provision to unlimited paid sick leave only for short-term illnesses (less than 180 days), question of guaranteed employment after recovery from long-term illness; PERB ruling on certification or decertification at Nassau Community College; memos re other individual grievances