Executive Committee, Rochester 11/15/01, 2001

Agenda; reports of president, executive vice president, first vice president Cortese, and second vice president (noting 9/11 disaster relief collection of $330,000 for affected NYSUT members, schools near Ground Zero); financial statement; materials from Regents public policy conference, "Building Capacity to Implement the NYS K-12 Learning Standards," November 7, 2001; list of resolutions referred to the Board of Directors by the 2001 Representative Assembly; cover letter from president Tom Hobart, October 23, 2001, with revised draft of NYSUT resolution on Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, calling on NYSUT locals to avoid statements that "excuse, minimize or justify" the attacks, urging tolerance of Islam, urging U.S. government to "take all actions necessary" to defend U.S. against terrorism, including use of military force; and AFT Executive Council resolution on the Events of September 11, 2001 and the War Against Terror, striking different themes (adopted earlier)