Box 3

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Assertive Discipline Proposal, with cover letter from NYSUT vp Antonia Cortese noting that course would be part of Effective Teaching Program, May 15, 1985; list of school districts using assertive discipline; related correspondence

Scope and Contents Variety of unrelated documents: State Education Department draft discussion paper re assessment centers facilitating employment of teachers not certified under standard system, 1974; unattributed document, “Assessing the Unaffiliated,” re consortium of educational institutions providing teacher assessment, 1976; National Education Association statements against Michigan Accountability System, 1974; NYSUT memo re full-value assessment of real estate for purpose of collecting property tax,...

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Correspondence; meeting materials

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State Education Department document, “Legal Information Concerning School Attendance,” March 1974 (revised); Regents discussion item, “Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention Program Interim Report,” March 1, 1985; spreadsheet printout of attendance ratios at school districts throughout the state, 1975-76 and 1977-78.

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Invoices

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Evaluation reports of successful school program in Maryland

Scope and Contents Copy of Assembly bill amending state education law to provide bilingual education, January 4, 1978; Federal Register publication of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Bilingual Education Program criteria for grants, June 11, 1976; HEW Office for Civil Rights Task Force Findings Specifying Remedies Available for Eliminating Past Educational Practices Ruled Unlawful under Lau v. Nichols, summer 1975; NYSUT Summary Report on Bilingual Education:...

Scope and Contents U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Application for Grants under Bilingual Education Program, November 15, 1977; letter to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli from State Education Department chief of Bureau of Bilingual Education, noting concerns re his lack of effective participation on Commissioner’s Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, July 29, 1977; minutes of Advisory Council meetings, 1976-77; NYSUT Committee on Educational Issues Survey on Bilingualism in the...

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Statement by teacher in Elmsford, NY, describing unworkable situation in teaching mathematics to Spanish-speaking students of widely varying abilities, grouped into one classroom under current system, October 7, 1977; meeting minutes, 1976; report, “The Current Status of U.S. Bilingual Education Legislation,” Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, CAL-ERIC/CLL Series on Languages and Linguistics, Arlington, VA, May 1975

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Report of Workshop on Bilingual Education and Certification, February 18-20, 1976; minutes of Commissioner’s Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, Subcommittee on Bilingual Certification, February 11, 1976; proposed and approved NYSUT position statement on bilingual education, September 10 and November 22, 1975; correspondence from Brentwood Teachers Association and school district; Bilingual Education Plan for the New York State Education Department, January 1974