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Career and Technical Education Policy Advisory Group meeting agenda; letter to Cortese re meeting; executive summary of advisory panel/focus forum meeting of November 10, 1999; unattributed document, "A Review of the literature on Integrated Learning"; presentation sheets, "Sussex Technical High School: A National School of Excellence" and fact sheet

Scope and Contents Letter to Cortese from State Education Department, thanking her for agreeing to serve on Career and Technical Education Advisory Group, noting first meeting, October 1999; packet of materials for November 10 meeting, including agenda, research/policy papers; memo to Cortese, "Update on Career and Technical Education Initiatives," September 24; description of Integrating Academic and Technical Instruction Advisory Group, from State Education Department, September 17; list of members; outline...

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Undated issues of newsletter, English; documents, "Possible Scenario for an Integrated Language Arts Teacher Inquiry Network," "Improving Student Literacy Levels in New York: A Proposal"

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Brochure of the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York, "Academic Labor Supports the PCS Position on the CUNY Master Plan," compiling testimony to Board of Regents hearing, CUNY Board of Trustees; New York Times clipping and online article

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Report of the Advisory Committee on the Certification of School Professionals, December 1996; related drafts; Cincinnati Federation of Teachers collective bargaining agreement with Cincinnati Board of Education, March 17, 1997; Registration Bulletin 2004-2005, New York State Teacher Certification Examinations and information guide

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Draft Regents early childhood teacher certification regulations, April 5, 1991; related correspondence

Scope and Contents Agenda, Task Force on Charter Schools, January 11, 2000; State Education Department draft report to the Governor and Legislature on the Educational Effectiveness of the Charter School Approach, November 7, 2003; draft five-year report, September 3, 2003, and related correspondence; "Not So Fast: The Unmet Challenges for Charter Schools and Those Who Oversee Them," November 2003, report prepared by NYSUT, NYS School Boards Association National Education Association.NY; NYSUT press release,...

Scope and Contents "A Study of Charter Schools: First-Year Report Executive Summary, 1997," U.S. Department of Education; "A National Study of Charter Schools: Executive Summary," U.S. Department of Education, 1998; NYSUT Briefing Bulletin, "Charter Schools. Serious Reform or the Latest Fad?" June 1997; NYSUT Briefing Bulletin, "Difference between Charter Schools and 21st Century Schools," October 1995; NYSUT Information Bulletin: Charter Schools, February 1996; memo to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli...

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Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) publication, "Blueprint for Change: Charter Schools: A Handbook for Action," n.d., c. 1994; Rand report, "Reinventing Public Education," April 1994; AFT legislative action alert, October 31, 1995; newspaper clippings

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Conference program; text of New York Charter Schools Act of 1998