New York Educators Association/NEA, 1976

Copies of NYEA Advocate and NYEA Leader; letter to colleagues from Reginald M. Washington, past president of Bellport Teachers Association, calling NYSUT publication "What Price Quotas?" racist, criticizing NYSUT's failure to adopt NEA affirmative action ("minority guarantee") programs, denouncing NYSUT leadership as indifferent to black teachers, alleging several related offenses, n.d.; letter to William Smith, director of Teacher Corps, U.S. Office of Education, from Chuck Santelli, director of NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services, describing NYSUT/NYEA dispute, May 26, 1976; list of NYEA officers and regional directors and votes on whether to disaffiliate with NYSUT, and list of NYSUT Board of Directors members and their votes on disaffiliation from NEA, with cover memo from Tom Hobart, May 26, 1976; correspondence from Mort Bahr, vice president, Communication Workers of America, to New York Educators Association and Newsday, noting support for NYSUT and not NEA/NYEA, June-July; memo re Bahr from John DeGregorio, Suffolk coordinator, to Tom Hobart, July 19; "open letter" mailer to teachers from NEA president John Royer denouncing NYSUT decision to disaffiliate; NYEA member presidential preference ballot (Carter vs. Ford), with flyer urging participation in presidential endorsement process; list of NEA officers in New York State; NEA ad in Newsday, "The Bored of Education," claiming students were no longer engaged in learning, NEA was there to help, February 12, 1976; document, "About NEA's New Affiliate in New York" (NYEA, competing with NYSUT), with attached map and list of NYSUT staff remaining with NEA as of March 8, 1976; untitled pro-NEA document directed at teachers, with map of NEA service centers around New York State; Daily News clipping, "Teacher vs. Teacher: The unions declare uncivil war," March 11, 1976; confidential memo from Tom Hobart to NYSUT officers reporting on first meeting of NYEA board, March 6, 1976; agenda for organizational meeting of NYEA, April 1, 1976; document, "NYEA Answers to your Questions on Continuing NEA Affiliation," with frequently asked questions re disaffiliation, minority guarantee, New York Project, et al.; NYEA document, "A Bill of Rights for Teachers & an Interim Governance Document: A Proposal for Consideration by the Teachers of New York," March 1976