NYSUT Officers Meeting, 1996

December 10, 1996. Agenda; Executive Committee meeting agenda; document, Important questions to ask Edison representatives, with cover letter to NYSUT vice president Toni Cortese re visit to Edison school in Boston, October 22, 1996; New York Times clipping, "Pro-Labor Republicans Feel Betrayed by Union Effort," re lack of support by AFL-CIO for moderate Republican members of Congress, 10/31/96; other newspaper clippings; summary of "Success in the Early Grades," re the "challenge of literacy by third grade," noting less than one-third of public school children in New York can read by the end of the third grade, less than 20% in New York City; AFT newsletter, Action, November 29, 1996; souvenir program for Annual Awards celebration of New York Occupational Safety & Health (NYCOSH), with note about NYSUT ad; letter to Hobart from legal representative of New York State Camp Directors Association, expressing concern over State Education Department's proposed change in school year, November 22; letter to Hobart from John Cleary, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, announcing that the NYS AFL-CIO had been granted a charter as a Directly Affiliated Labor Union by the national AFL-CIO, which would enhance organizing activities within the state, November 4, 1996, with attached copy of charter; letters of thanks for contributions from the A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund and other organizations; souvenir program for the Upper Hudson Area Labor Council 50th anniversary event, with ad from NYSUT; newsletters from the Labor Research Association, Inc., Economic Notes and Trade Union Advisor, re health care costs and other issues, with cover letter to Hobart; confidential report to the NYSUT Board of Directors on the NYS PTA Annual Convention, November 15-17, 1996; memo to NYSUT officers from campaign coordinator Jim Sheehan, analyzing successful election of Manny Kafka and Jo Davenport (to New York State Teachers Retirement System board), November 27, 1996; letter to Sheehan from NYSUT executive vice president Alan Lubin, thanking him for work he did on Kafka-Davenport election, November 15; graphical analysis of election results; memo re NYSUT underwriting agreement (one of three major sponsors) for Inside Albany television show; letter to Hooshang Parvin, president Connetquot Teachers Association, charging him and association with failure to comply with NYSUT Constitution in refusing to forward dues owed, December 10; announcement of new NYSUT recognition awards, Local Union Community Service Award and Life Line Honor Roll; memo re Parental Rights Movement Resolution, with attached draft, opposing "parental rights" movement as effort by right-wing religious groups to promote hidden agenda; attached list of other organizations opposing parental rights movement, December 2; materials re controversy at Rochester Teachers Association, charges of anti-Semitism, countersuit at Commack Teachers Association