Key Issues

Student Health

• SED List of Free and Reduced Cost Dental Providers (1/26/09)
• Revised School Meal Reimbursement Rates for 2008-09
• SED Anaphylaxis Guidelines and Procedures
• SED Sample Letter from School District to Parents Regarding Dental Health Certificates
• SED Letter to Administrators regarding Dental Health Certificates
• SED Sample Dental Health Certificate
• SED Regulations for Student Dental Health Certificates

Labor

• Governor's Approval Message 46, Professional Service Providers
• SED Regulations Relating to the Employment of Retired Persons and Attorneys in Public School Districts and BOCES
• Governor's veto Memorandum 113: Retiree Health Benefits Task Force
• Veto Request: Retiree Health Benefits Task Force
• Governor's Approval Memorandum 20 Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening
• Governor's Veto memorandum 44 Mandatory Negotiation of Discipline
• Veto Request: Establishing a Permanent Agency Shop Fee
• Veto Request: Mandated Negotiation of Discipline
• Veto Request: Independent Hearing Officers for Civil Service Employee Discipline
• Quality Educators in Every School
• Report - Pension Reform for the 21st Century
• Testimony - Paid Family Leave

Special Education

• Regents Memorandum Regarding Mandate Relief- Special Education Requirements (1/13/09)
• Guidance on Final Regulations Implementing the Changes to the IDEA
• Veto Request: Dual Enrolment Status for Home School Students (A.11463-S.7490)
• Veto Request: Publish and Disseminate Information on State Programs for Blind and Deaf Students

Charter Schools

• Report - Charter Schools: Investment in Innovation or Funding Folly?
• Report - Taxation Without Representation

• Testimony - Governor’s Commission on Property Tax Relief
• Testimony - Real Property Tax Assesstment Practices
• Testimony - Real Property Tax Reform
• Testimony - Property Tax Alternatives
• Report - Alternatives to the Real Property Tax

• Report - Excelsior! Key Drivers Behind New York's ‘Ever Upward' Property Tax Burden
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• 2008 Recommended Mandate Relief for School Districts