Scope and Contents 2005-06 Budget Analysis: Review of Enacted Budget, from the Office of the State Comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, May 17, 2005; review of the 2004-05 Legislative Budget Agreement, New York State Division the Budget, George E. Pataki, Governor, August 20, 2004; memo from AFT legislative associate re passage of 2006 congressional budget, noting tax cuts and cuts to education, Medicaid, job training, and other domestic programs, failure of several AFT-supported amendments, links to individual...

Scope and Contents Printed brochure, "Engage New York: A Call to Engage Business in Promoting Education Excellence," by the Business Council; charts correlating reading scores, 4th grade English Language Arts, and funding; program for event at Southern Saratoga County Chamber, featuring Commissioner of Education Richard Mills; press release re Education and Business Expo for October 1, 2004; 1990 Business/Labor Education Symposium agenda; Business Council and NYS AFL-CIO working paper for symposium, "Schools...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between NYSUT president Tom Hobart and Dan Walsh, Business Council of New York State, Inc., re meeting to discuss proposal that NYSUT, AFT, and Business Council develop model for validating teaching practices, December 1996-January, 1997; related correspondence with Marge Mayo, Al Shanker; special report, "Measuring Up in Our Schools: Improving Assessment and Accountability," by the Public Policy Institute, December 1988, with cover letter from Walsh (as president of...

Scope and Contents Advance copy of Public Policy Institute report, "Separate and Unequal: The Reading Gap in New York Elementary Schools," with cover letter from the corporate secretary of the Business Council, noting that Marge (Margarita) Mayo, Business Council director of quality, education and training, had suggested sending it to NYSUT first vice president Antonia Cortese, February 18, 1998; letters from Cortese commenting on report; cover letter from Mayo to Cortese with article from The Economist, April...

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Linda Sanford (IBM executive and chair of the Business Council Education Task Force) comments to the New York State Board of Regents, 9/10/ 04; letter from Sanford to Maria Neira, requesting a meeting

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Agenda; notes from October 25 Cabinet meeting; organizational chart of NYSUT departments; list of future organizing opportunities; Bicentennial Commission Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Strategic Plan executive summary; letter to UFT president Randi Weingarten from Republican Assembly member Vincent Ignizio, soliciting support for elimination of sales tax on books ("reading tax"), November 14

Scope and Contents Agenda; notes from September 27 Cabinet meeting; annual report of the general counsel to the executive director and officers for the 2004-2005 administrative year; 2004-05 Organizing Report; evaluation form, NYSUT Board of Directors' Retreat, September 16-18, 2005; letter from NYSUT president Richard Ianuzzi to Gerald Reynolds, chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, expressing deep concern over remarks Reynolds made re Albany City School District, noting diversion of millions of dollars in...

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Agenda; notes from September 13 and June 22 Cabinet meeting; organizational chart of NYSUT departments; memo re Republican Mainstream Coalition, a group of Republicans with moderate views, and its 501(c)3 not-for-profit research arm, the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership (CEEP), recommending a $2000 contribution from NYSUT for its operating budget, September 26; materials re Higher Education Database Project; memo re retirement consultants

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Agenda; flyer, "No Child Left Behind," showing images of children from Hurricane Katrina, photos of President Bush and advisors, with timeline of White House response to event; resolutions due to expire in 2006; memo re retiree health insurance for management and confidential staff who were not grandfathered into enhanced benefits, July 21, 2005; production chart for ads and editorial support, online communications

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Agenda; notes of Officers and Associates' meeting of April 12, 2005; memo re PSC support; memo from director of human resources, recommending that mandatory post-hiring medical exams on new hires be continued despite learning of no cost savings on insurance rates, May 16, 2005