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Scope and Contents NYSUT Special Education Committee 1992-1994 end-of-term report; testimony by Cortese at public hearing of NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Education re issues affecting special education, February 12, 1993; NYSUT urgent action memo re reductions in special education programs under proposed new Commissioner's Regulations, calling on local presidents to lobby Regents, March 12, 1991; NYSUT resolution opposing cuts in services, n.d.; letter from Commissioner Sobol to Assembly Speaker Mel...

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Text of draft legislation developed by the NYS Assembly Task Force on Special Education, April 19, 1985; meeting agenda for NYSUT Special Education Committee, May 3-4, 1985; document, "Assorted Special Education Matters"; outline for NYSUT workshop, "Securing Pupil Services"

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Draft document explaining new Commissioner's Regulations re discipline procedures for students with disabilities, with cover letter to Cortese requesting comments, May 5, 2000; final document, with cover letter, January 29, 2001; response to Cortese re general policy recommendations re students with disabilities, April 2, 2001

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Conference summary report; letter to Cortese from special education teachers at Jefferson School, New Rochelle, asking for NYSUT help, June 14, 2000

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Conference agenda for program designed to increase reading skills of "at- risk urban children" and students otherwise developmentally disabled; press release

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Conference agenda; handwritten notes

Scope and Contents Outline and draft remarks for 1997 Representative Assembly speech by Cortese; outline of 1996 speech; memo re background research on standards, April 27, 1997; survey results of teacher opinions re rigor of Regents exams, 2001-02; teacher survey 1997; materials of Task Force on Time, 2002; opinion article by IBM chair Lou Gerstner, in New York Times, n.d; related Times article; article from U.S. Newswire comparing professional...

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Memo outlining key points from Linda Darling-Hammond's presentation at Inservice Conference, January 24, 1997; booklets prepared by NYSUT Legislative Department, "New York State Tax Cuts: Promise or Peril? Committee of 100," May 13-14, 1996, "Committee of 100," May 13-14, 1996; "Committee of 100," March 25-26, 1996

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Outlines and handwritten notes on various speeches, including Western New York Leadership Conference; 1992 RA speech ("never delivered"); community services conference, June 3, 1991; many unidentified

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Letter to Cortese from Fulton-Montgomery Teachers' Cluster (including Amsterdam Teachers' Association) re speaking at awards ceremony; handwritten notes outlining speech