Scope and Contents Revised draft of final report, with cover memo to Task Force on Early Childhood Services, November 8, 1988; task force meeting materials (recommendations and unresolved issues), October 1988; draft letters to Gov. Cuomo from NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese in response to report of task force, November 1988; testimony of Albert Shanker, president, AFT, before the Senate Labor Committee on S. 2270, Smart Start, May 11, 1988; report to the Governor and Legislature submitted by the NYS Council on...

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AFL-CIO publication, “Reaganomics Part II,” February 22, 1982; address by president of Carnegie Corporation to Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, “The Trends of the 1980s: Where Are They Leading Us?” 1981; address of Owen Butler, chairman, Subcommittee on Business in the Schools, Committee for Economic Development, July 5, 1986; special issue of State Legislatures re education, 1983; article reprints

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Newspaper clippings; Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, January/February 1982, including articles by Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach and the former president of City College (CUNY), Robert Marshak, re the open admissions controversy

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Paper, “The Status of Reports on Education in the 1980s,” c. 1988

Scope and Contents NYSUT Proposal for State Aid and Education Reform in New York State, March 3, 1984; NYSUT Response to Education Reform Initiatives in New York State, January 21, 1984; letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to NY governor Mario Cuomo outlining education reform proposals, December 20, 1983; draft letter to governor's executive assistant Hank Dullea, following up on points raised in meeting; AFT Questions & Answers on Education Reform, (no date).; text of keynote address to Conference on...

Scope and Contents Materials for AFT Regional Leadership Conference: Meeting the Challenge of Education Reform, 1983; NYS School Boards Association position paper on school finance reform; “Summaries of Recommendations for the Improvement of School Quality and of Costs of Recommendations for Improved School Quality,” complied by Center for Educational Research and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany; materials re Tennessee Master Teacher Program, 1983; materials from California and Virginia;...

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Materials for Field Staff Conference on Education Reform, June 23, 1989; Workshop on Education Reform Initiatives, February 10, 1987; The Role of Teacher Unions in School Reform Initiatives, February 10, 1987; confidential summary of School Improvement/Effective Schools Seminar, December 15, 1986; memo to AFT Executive Council from NYSUT president Tom Hobart re New York's statewide educational reform agenda, May 10, 1988