Box 10

Scope and Contents

Message to the Legislature, January 3, 1990; “1989 State of the Union Address,” unattributed (probably not Cuomo) speech to NYSUT Representative Assembly

Scope and Contents

NYSUT report, “Curriculum Mandates,” 1977; State Education Department study papers; NYSUT policy statements; correspondence.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence

Scope and Contents

Correspondence re computer software and equipment issues, including updating data files.

Scope and Contents

Charts and graphs re national enrollment trends; NYSUT memo re alternatives to teacher layoffs in response to declining enrolment, December 18, 1980; fact sheet, the Impact of Declining Enrollment; handwritten notes

Scope and Contents

Letter from NYSUT president Tom Hobart to the Governor’s Conference for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities and Infant Mortality, questioning recommendation to mandate K-12 sex education, access to services by pre-school handicapped children, July 22, 1981.

Scope and Contents

Seminar paper, “Lovaas, TEACCH, And the Public System: The Court as Referee,” by Myrna Mandlawitz, National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE); summaries of legal cases; article reprints.

Scope and Contents Confidential memo from NYSUT associate Phil Ellis re State Education Department draft memo re high school course credit for students with disabilities, May 31, 1996; text of SED draft memo, June 1996; memo to Regents “for emergency action” to allow more flexibility under Commissioner’s Regulations for assigning a teacher to teach a subject without certification in the subject, May 24, 1996; NY State Education Department Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with...