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Box 12

 Container

Contains 48 Results:

Low-Performing Schools 1994-1998, 1994-1998

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Letter to vp Cortese from Lonnie Palmer, Superintendent of Schools for City School District of Albany, suggesting two-year study comparing performance of students at Giffen school with those who accepted ABC (A Better Choice) scholarship voucher offer to attend private schools, to give NYSUT "the upper hand in the public-relations war," January 21, 1998; Regents Subcommittee on Low- Performing Schools interim report, February 1994; draft NYSUT response, June 28, 1994; response to...
Dates: 1994-1998

Advisory Committee on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, Oct. 22, 1997, 1997

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meeting of Advisory Committee on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, September 11, 1997; proposed schedule for institute on redesigning low-performing schools; flyer for resource guide; tentative agreement between Minneapolis Public School and Minneapolis Federation of Teachers #59, July 1, 1997-June 30, 1999

Dates: 1997

AFT Committee on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, Sept. 11, 1997, 1997

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents Agenda; discussion questions; proposal for Institute on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools; Activities of the Redesigning Low-Performing Schools Initiative since the May Executive Council Meeting; documents, "Suggestions on the Design and Implementation of a Training Program for School Redesign Process Facilitators," "Suggestions on the Dissemination of Raising Student Achievement"; transcript excerpt: Discussion on AFT Activities and Services to Support the Improvement of Low-Performing...
Dates: 1997

AFT Task Force on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, February 1997, 1997

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents Agenda for February 7, 1997, meeting; draft (not for publication or attribution) criteria for identifying low-performing schools; excerpts of responses to survey of states and districts re criteria for identifying and remediating low-performing schools; memo re reconstitution, January 6, 1997; overview of legal protections for teacher employment; related memo; K-12 Teachers Program & Policy Council Meeting agenda; discussion questions, the role of the union in redesigning low-performing...
Dates: 1997

AFT Task Force on Redesigning Low Performing Schools 1999, 1999

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Commentary on draft AFT paper "Improving Low-Performing High Schools"; article reprints and related background materials

Dates: 1999

AFT Advisory Committee on Low-Performing Schools April 3, 1998, 1998

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Meeting agenda; background materials, including memorandum from President Bill Clinton to Secretary of Education re turning around low-performing public schools (October 28, 1997) and related White House press release

Dates: 1998

Institute on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, Miami Beach, FL, 1/8-11/98, 1998

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Reading materials for AFT conference: "Building on the Best, Learning from What Works: Four Promising Schoolwide Academic Programs" and "Seven Promising Reading and English Language Arts Programs"

Dates: 1998

Malta and Sicily (AFT) 11/5/02, 2002

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Invitation to an Education International Conference, "Living and Learning Together: the Role and Responsibilities of Educators & Their Unions"; conference agenda; memos; NYSUT press release re concern over lingering effects of 9/11 attacks on students; NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services downloads of articles re risk of prejudice against Arab American community, fanaticism vs constitutional democracy

Dates: 2002