Box 6

Covers 1965-1999, with greatest focus in the 1970s and 1980s during Jim Conti's tenure as director of field services. Includes correspondence of Conti and of individual regional offices, activity reports and requests for legal assistance.

Correspondence discussing possible legal cases re individual teachers

Correspondence discussing possible legal cases re individual teachers for potential violations of rights from docking of pay for sick time to refusal to recite Pledge of Allegiance

Correspondence re individual teachers; legal brief, petition against Education Commission Gordon Ambach by Organization to Assure Services for Exceptional Students, Inc., Herbert G. Birch School, Inc., Stephen Gaynor School, Summit School

Memo re status of individual cases

Correspondence re individual teachers; legal briefs (arbitration award and related materials re Wappingers Central School District, Wappingers Congress of Teachers, Wappingers Federation of Transit, Custodial, and Maintenance Workers, Wappingers Federation of Workers)

Correspondence re health insurance issues, tenure issues, military leave/seniority, possible libel case over newspaper article

Correspondence re denial of maternity leave; possible human rights violation/ constitutionally impermissible reason for dismissal of teacher for "lifestyle choice not consistent with traditional conservative values" of South Seneca Central School district; plan to abolish home-hospital tutor program in Rochester school district

Request for legal opinion re layoff of 23 teachers in Elmira; miscellaneous issues

Legal brief, stay of arbitration and responses, North Syracuse Central School District; petition to vacate arbitration award re salary schedules in Marcellus Central School District, responses, and related motions; tenure/ seniority issues; list of school districts participating in the New York State School Boards Association Legal Assistance Fund