Commissioner Mills 12/4/03, 2003

Agenda re charter schools, middle-level education, alternative assessments; inservice conference; report by NYSUT, National Education Association of New York, and New York School Boards Association, "Not So Fast: The Unmet Challenges for Charter Schools and Those Who Oversee Them," November 2003, with cover letter to Regents from Cortese, urging moratorium on charter schools; Draft Report to the Governor and the Legislature on the Educational Effectiveness of the Charter School Approach, presented to Regents as discussion paper, November 7, 2003; program for 22nd Annual Statewide Conference on Inservice Education, cosponsored by NYSUT and NY State Education Department