Box 23

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Correspondence re NYSUT sponsorship of evening of NYC Ballet performance

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Routine correspondence

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Program for awards dinner; description of program; facilitative correspondence

Scope and Contents College Board booklet, "Balancing the SAT Scales," April 1994; College Board press release, "College Board Reports SAT Scores Up Again This Year for all Students and Most Ethnic Subgroups," August 19, 1993; press release, "AFT's Shanker Reacts to 1993 SAT Test Scores," August 19, 1993; Harvard Educational Review article, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildering: The Use and Misuse of State SAT and ACT Scores," Brian...

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NYS Council of School Superintendents "Commentary: The Proposed SASS Accountability System," November 17, 1999; memo to Cortese explaining the System for Accountability for Student Success (SASS), March 14, 2000; letter to NYSUT director Charles Santelli from State Education Department responding to comments re SASS, with attached revised version, February 3, 2000

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Letter to Cortese from NYSUT general counsel outlining requirements under NY Indian Law and Education Law re Mohawk Nation dispute at Salmon River School District, November 27, 1996; article from NY Teacher outlining tensions at St. Regis Mohawk School, February 10, 1997; memos re ombudsman position, other points of contention; handwritten notes

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Report of September 30, 1996, meeting with SED to discuss the Salmon River School District situation, re forcible takeover of school by Mohawks and lockout of teachers following SED ruling that children from Canadian side of border would have to pay tuition; Mohawk curriculum and criteria for trustee membership; text of state Education Law re Indian schools; memos; newspaper clippings

Scope and Contents State Education Department discussion paper re development of Regents policy on attendance, January 23, 2001; text of Commissioner's regulations re attendance, July 31, 1998; amended Commissioner's regulations, November 2001; comments by NYSUT to proposed amendments, September 28, 2001; response by NYSUT to draft recommendations of Statewide Advisory Council on School Attendance, with cover letter from Cortese, June 29, 2000. See also: ...

Scope and Contents Charge to advisory council; recommendations of advisory council, with pencilled-in comments, cover letter to Cortese soliciting feedback, June 9, 2000; governor's press release re Mooreland Commission findings of rampant fraud in NYC schools re attendance reporting, December 13, 1999; press release, "Commissioner Announces School Attendance Initiative," December 11, 1999; State Education Department guidelines re attendance, December 1999; briefing paper on school district data issues, by...

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Agenda of April 16 meeting; notes from November 17, 2003, meeting; final report of the NYS Commission on Education Reform, March 29, 2004; final report, volume 1, "The New York Adequacy Study: 'Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education,'" by American Institute for Research and by Management Analysis and Planning, Inc, March 2004. See also: State Aid