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Statement by Red Hook Faculty Association (prepared by NYSUT associate Phil Ellis) re procedures for referral of students to Committee on Special Education and related issues, revised August 6, 1997; draft statement; correspondence between Ellis and Red Hook staff, disagreeing on draft procedures

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Request for Proposals from State Education Department to improve reading and math performance of special education students

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AFT Quest conference program; materials re statistical data collection, test modifications for student with disabilities; letter from NYSUT associate Phil Ellis to AFT national headquarters raising concerns about including performance of all special education students in schools’ overall test scores, January 13, 1997; State Education Department memos re providing bilingual psychologists, teachers for speech and hearing disabled

Scope and Contents Testimony by NYSUT second vice president Antonia Cortese, responding to the questions of New York State Assembly Task Force on Special Education re reforms, December 10, 1984; NYSUT memo opposing proposed early intervention programs, June 10, 1985; memos re NYSUT Special Education Committee; materials for workshop on securing pupil services; NYSUT draft policy statement re Special Education Reform Act of 1985 (Harenberg bill in Assembly), September 15, 1985; related memos re bill; letter...

Scope and Contents Comparison of licensing/certification requirements for speech pathology/audiology teachers, May 23, 1984; NYSUT memos re Regent's Plan for Educational Changes in NYS, implications for special education and occupational and practical arts education; memos from NYSUT Vice President Antonia Cortese, research director Charles Santelli, and others to regional coordinators and local presidents re preparations for visits by State Education Department evaluators to school districts re special...

Scope and Contents July 25, 1983. NYSUT information bulletins re Teacher Guide to Appealing Inappropriate Placement (Mainstreaming); Disciplinary Procedures and the Disruptive Handicapped Student; Physical Education for Pupils with Handicapping Conditions; The Regents’ Approved Plan to Evaluate the Implementation of the Revised Part 200 Regulations; NYSUT’s Monitoring of the Regents’ Study of SED's Revision of Part 200 Regulations (includes a brief history of NYSUT’s opposition to the Part 200 revision); text...

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January 7-8, 1983. Agenda; correspondence

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March 10, 1982. Draft testimony of NYSUT president Tom Hobart at the Regent's Public Hearing on the Proposed Revision of Part 200 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, 2/23/82; related memos

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February 5, 1981. Discussion item from State Education Department; “Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions: A Revision of Regulations,” January 8, 1981; handwritten notes

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NYSUT “Vocational Education Futuring Alert,” February 1982; correspondence re child with severe herpes, right of Cortland-Madison BOCES teacher to walk out, December 1982; NYSUT Information Bulleting re survey of special education teachers, March 1982