Education Policy: Find Records:

Find Records

University at Albany, University Libraries
Title Conference of Large City Boards of Education. Records, 1968-1981 Dept/Division M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Description The Special Task Force on Equity and Excellence in Education was appointed as part of the Conference of Large City Boards of Education of New York State in 1978. Topics covered include school vouchers, regionalism in education, the correlation between class size and student achievement, special needs students, and other issues related to education policy. Also included is Eugene C. Samter's testimony from the 1976 Levittown vs. Nyquist case argued before the New York State Supreme Court. RLIN catalog number: NYAG91-A29

Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Title White House Subject Files on Education, 1963-1969 Description Presidential and staff messages to and meetings with students, educators, and education conferences; anti-dropout campaigns; Task Forces on Education & Child Development; Interagency Task Force on Education; DC schools; Panel on Computers in Education of the President's Science Advisory Committee; National Teacher Corps; ESEA; IEA; Reading is FUNdamental project; Office of EEO and school integration; National Student Association; BOB estimates of program costs; HEW estimates of education needs and suggestions for legislation.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts
Title Dorwatha Adderley papers, 1975-1998 Description Genealogical information, correspondence, speeches, minutes, newsletters, photographs, and audio-visual materials detailing Adderley's family life and activities as principal of Ascension School, the largest multi-racial Roman Catholic grade school (K-8) in Minneapolis, and as cocordinator of Parent Choice Advocates, a group organized to train citizens to lobby for financial assistance to low and middle income parents of non-public school children.

Rockefeller Archive Center
Title General Education Board Archives (1901-1964) - 1967 Description The GEB was established in 1903 by John D. Rockefeller to aid education in the U.S. "without distinction of race, sex or creed." The emphasis was on the South and the education of Blacks. Offices were established in Richmond and Baton Rouge to give GEB agents closer contact with southern communities. The Board was especially active in promoting the public school movement in the early part of the 20th century. After 1940, programs other than those for southern education were brought to a close; the last appropriation was made in 1964.

Department of Records and Information Services
Title Isaiah Robinson Files, 1968-1972 Dept/Division New York City Department of Records and Information Services Description The Isaiah Robinson Files, 1968-1972, document portions of the work of a member and officer of the Board of Education, who served, during these years, as the first African-American president of the Board. The Isaiah Robinson Files document only a portion of Robinson's work on the Board of Education. While Robinson's service on the Board spanned the years 1969 to 1978, the records cover only the period 1969 to 1972. The location of the records for the period after 1972 is not known.

Gerald R. Ford Library
Title David H. Lissy Files, 1974-1977 Description Education Files, 1974-76. Materials produced or accumulated primarily by Lissy, but also by his predecessor Roger Semerad, on . . . education issues before the Domestic Council. Included is information on administration programs for secondary and higher education, particularly interagency follow-up on President Ford's proposals for work and education; busing, affirmative action, the title IX controversy and similar minority education issues; and federal funding of education, especially the administration's education block grant proposals.

Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos/Hunter College
Title Joseph Monserrat Papers; 1953-2005 (Bulk 1960s-1980s) Description A government official and community leader. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, subject files, information about community organizations, and materials related to his positions on the Board of Education of the City of New York, the Migration Division of the Government of Puerto Rico and the Department of Community Affairs in the United States.