Sally Zwieback’s interview with high school principal Joe Hinton ran in the Gazette and Record Pilot.
Superintendents meeting with NY State assemblymen on Friday, February 8
Alliance for Quality Education will go to Albany to talk with representatives on Tuesday February 26th
There is a Long Island Education Coalition.
Ronnie Lavine would like a leave-of-absence as secretary for a few months. Helen Kotzky has agreed to step in.
Nancy Cleary has arranged for community leaders to visit the schools on March 19th.from 10 to 11:30 AM. Fern Lindenbaum will supply names and addresses. Fern will write a letter to the papers inviting the community to visit a school on the 19th.
Leslie Whitely will set up a meeting between real estate brokers and school leaders.
Don Scarl will speak about the Coalition at the InterAgency Council meeting on February 13th.
April 13th brunch.
The Coalition should write to the papers explaining our purposes, inviting people to join, and inviting people to run for school board.
Carl McCall who is running in the Democratic primary for
New York State governor is a former school board member and the present New York
State Controller. We should invite him to speak at a public meeting about school
issues, state support, and Regents requirements.
Now is the time to encourage
parents to register to vote. We should cooperate with the PTAs.
It would be good to get parent
lists from the Junior Soccer League and the Little League.