Box 5
Container
Contains 38 Results:
Choice (Public School) 1989-1990, 1989-1990
File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Cover memo to managers and staff of NYSUT Research and Educational Services re materials for staff meeting, September 10, 1990, with attached NYSUT testimony on Educational Choice, Restructuring and Equity, May 24, 1989, New York State School Boards Association Survey on Public School Choice in New York State: Summary of Findings, October 1989, Choosing Better Schools, Eastern Regional Strategy Meeting on Choice in Education, sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, October 16-17, 1989,...
Dates:
1989-1990
Choice. Vouchers 1996-2002, 1996-2002
File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Education Daily newsletters, highlighting plan by conservative Christian groups to withdraw children from public schools, financing private scholarships from conservative corporate donors, August 1998; program for the 62nd NYS Conference of NAACP Branches, October 9-11, 1998; Report by AFT, "The Cleveland Voucher Program: Who Chooses? Who Gets Chosen? Who Pays?" 1997; brochure by AFT and A. Philip Randolph Institute, "School Choice: Who Chooses? Who Loses?" AFT brochure, "Who Chooses? Who...
Dates:
1996-2002
Choice. Vouchers 1995-1997, 1995-1997
File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
AFT Fact Sheet on Vouchers, 1995-96; memo to NYSUT officers, with transcript of state senator Joseph Bruno's public statements on private school vouchers, January 12, 1995; Statement by AFT on Greene, Peterson, Howell evaluation of voucher schools in Cleveland, July 18, 1997; AFT legislative fax alert re upcoming voucher votes, September 22, 1997; AFT paper, "The Myths behind Private School Vouchers, 1997; materials re Milwaukee voucher case; Regents discussion items re school choice,...
Dates:
1995-1997
Civic Values 1981-1987, 1981-1987
File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Speech re teaching values in public schools, by NY Gov. Mario Cuomo at Newsday Education Symposium, with cover letter to Toni Cortese, March 18, 1987; correspondence between Cuomo and Toni Cortese re values speech, September. October, 1986; unsigned, undated draft of speech, "Education for Democracy"; sermons on values by rector of St. John's Church, Washington, D.C., with cover letter from Theodore C. Achilles, vice chair of the Atlantic Council of the United States, December 6, 1985;...
Dates:
1981-1987
Civility 1993-2004, 1993-2004
File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
NYSUT special report, "Conflict in the Classroom," n.d., c.1993; NYSUT Office of General Counsel research re students' speech rights, May 25, 2004; Zogby Student Discipline Surveys of Teachers and Union Presidents, April 15, 1999; NYSUT press release, "Student Behavior Worsens; Teachers Launch Civility Campaign," April 22, 1999. See also: School Violence; See also: ...
Dates:
1993-2004
Class Size/Teaching Load 1985-1998, 1985-1998
File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Testimony of Antonia Cortese, second vice president, NYSUT, to the Board of Regents on Class Size and Teaching Load, June 19, 1985; materials from State Education Department re grant program to reduce class size; AFT and NYSUT material on class size; legal analysis by NYSUT general counsel Bernard Ashe re Commissioner's Regulations on class size, January 9, 1987; letter from Cortese to deputy commissioner of education, with attached "NYSUT Recommendations for Regulations Governing Class Size...
Dates:
1985-1998
College Board 5th Annual Invitational Seminar 1/27/93, 1993
File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Article from Chronicle of Higher Education, "Fewer Test Takers Get Top Scores on the Verbal SAT," January 13, 1993; invitations to seminars for state policymakers. See also: Pacesetter Program, College Board
Dates:
1993
Commissioner of Education. Powers of the Commissioner 1989, 1989
File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
NYSUT memo requesting interpretation of commissioner's power over certification
Dates:
1989
Commissioner Ambach. Ambach Report 1987, 1987
File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Press release and summary report, "A New Reliance on Education: Overview from a Report: New York: The State of Learning, 1977 to 1987," June 17, 1987 ("Ambach Report")
Dates:
1987
Commissioner Ambach. Meeting May 28, 1986, 1986
File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Related materials
Dates:
1986