Box 18

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Minutes of fourth meeting, January 27, 1988; third draft of report; other drafts

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Minutes of third meeting, January 8, 1988; press release, "Commissioner Sobol Appoints Four Task Forces," September 18, 1987; background materials; correspondence

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Fifth draft of report; recommendations of the Commissioner's Task Force on Teacher Education and Certification, April 1, 1977; confidential report, "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century: The Report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy," May 1986; draft paper on recruitment of minorities in teacher education programs, with cover letter from NYS Education Commissioner Sobol to Hobart, December 28, 1987

Scope and Contents Agenda of February 8-9, 1988, meeting; paper, "New Teacher Licensure Assessment Strategies: Connecticut's Prototypes for Assessing Beginning Teachers' Subject Matter - Pedagogical Knowledge," December 11, 1997, and February 8, 1988; testimony of NYSUT regarding the Regents hearings on the proposed amendments to the certification requirements for elementary and secondary academic areas, October 16, 1986; task force press release, "Task Force Seeks Greater Decision-Making Role, Tougher Entry...

Scope and Contents Cover sheet for materials from NYSUT opposing tuition tax credits for families of children attending nonpublic schools: fact sheet by NYSUT; list of organization members of New York State Coalition for Public Education; list of resolutions on tuition tax credits and President Reagan's budget cuts approved by 1981 NYSUT Representative Assembly; NYSUT Information Bulletin; memo by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "Unconstitutionality of Tuition Tax Credits Under the First Amendment,"...

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List, "Positions of NYS Congressmen re tuition tax credits"; text of radio spots, 1978 (tapes removed to 6174/AV); several drafts of "dear colleague" letters by Hobart, suggesting ulterior motives by tax credit proponents such as racial segregation, elitism; letter to the editor of the Daily World accusing tax credit proponents of trying to promote their religion, April 1978; correspondence; newspaper clippings

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Issue paper by NYS Council of School Superintendents, "The Reagan Tuition Tax Credit Proposal: A Discussion of Pertinent Issues," July 15, 1982; correspondence, clippings

Scope and Contents Agenda for meeting to form Coalition Against Tuition Tax Credits, February 18, 1981; letter to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-NY) from the president of the New York PTA reiterating opposition to tuition tax credits for families of children attending nonpublic schools, noting enclosed published articles from 1978 quoting Moynihan as asserting opposition was anti-Catholic, February 5, 1981; New York Times clipping, "Protestant Schools Open at Rate of Three a Day," February 2, 1981; issue of...

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2/2/81. Agenda, list of participants

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2/9/81. Notice of meeting for NYSUT task force; to-do list; text of Moynihan introduction of legislation for tuition tax credits, reimbursement of school districts for the cost of federal mandates, and related issues; text of bill