Regents Task Force on Teaching 9/4/97, 1997

Regents Task Force on Teaching Report: position on major issues, June 13, 1997; cost estimates for proposals by Regents Task Force on Teaching; proposal by Regent Cohen for state teacher certification and recertification; certification frameworks (new model) for student age tiers; confidential Hart Research survey of New York teachers, April 17-19, and voters, April 23-28, 1997; research papers on professional development; newspaper clippings showing "bad press" over Kenmore staff development program, with memo to Cortese from NYSUT media relations director warning of questions from "wiseguy" task force members, September 3, 1997; memo to NYSUT Board of Directors from Cortese re raising standards for teaching and learning (NYSUT proposal for staff development), January 16, 1997; confidential draft, "NYSUT Plan for Tenure/Beyond Certification," February 5, 1997; NYSUT press release, "Tenure Reform Cuts Length of Teacher Discipline Cases by 60 Percent," June 30, 1997