National Education Association (NEA), 1974-1978

Reader's Digest article, "The NEA: A Washington Lobby Run Rampant," November 1978; actions of the NEA Board of Directors (minutes), September 29-30, 1978, and Executive Committee, October 24-25, 1978; issues of newsletter, Common Sense, special publication for NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly, including March 1986 issue, "The New York Disaffiliation: A History of the Underlying Factors"; letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart re NEA racial-minority delegate guarantee ("quota") system, based on general population, not membership, effect on New York City, teacher unity, May 4, 1977; letter from Hobart re NEA attempt to charter New York City affiliates separately from state organization, March 21, 1977; copies of correspondence between NYSUT and NEA since NEA Representative Assembly in March 1976, with cover letter from Hobart to NEA Board of Directors, re resignation of NEA board members elected from NYC, June 1, 1976; newsletter, Update, for local leaders of the New York State United Teachers, with NYSUT perspective on NEA Representative Assembly, March 1, 1976; newspaper clipping from Albany Knickerbocker News, re criticism by local teachers of NEA television commercials, said to hurt image of teachers with the public, February 4, 1976; correspondence from Hobart urging members to approve disaffiliation; letter from Hobart to local presidents re American Arbitration Association official count of mailed ballots, confirming vote by NYSUT membership to withdraw from NEA, January 28, 1976, with attached press release and summary of actions of the NYSUT Board of Directors meeting of January 23-24, 1976; issues of New York Teacher re disaffiliation; "The NEA attacks teacher-unity and the AFL-CIO: Two Responses to the NEA: I. Thomas Y. Hobart, Jr., president, NYSUT, II. Antonia Cortese, 2nd vice president, NYSUT"; correspondence re "NEA in New York project," said by Hobart to set up an alternate teacher's organization in New York State, 1975; platform and correspondence from the Unity Caucus of delegates to NEA Representative Assembly, criticizing NEA for increasingly intervening in state associations; position paper by Hobart, "A Commitment to Unity," to the NEA Board of Directors on the 57th annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, August 19-24, 1973; an open letter to NEA members in New York State from NEA president James A. Harris, February 28, 1975