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Building better BOCES
November 4, 2004 From left, Peggy Barmore of NYSUT, Paul Cole of the AFL-CIO, Vito Rinaldo of the Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES, and Dick Iannuzzi of NYSUT. An eye-opening look at how the Bush administration has been working to gut federal funding to Career and Technical Education programs got the attention of many attending the 32nd Annual NYSUT Conference for BOCES Leadership. "This administration is no friend to CTE," warned speaker Paul Cole, secretary-treasurer of the state AFL-CIO and a vice president of NYSUT's national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers. At one of many workshops offered at the three-day session, conference-goers looked at ways to stem the growing number of component school districts contracting outside of BOCES for related services such as occupational and physical therapists and counselors. Nevertheless, with BOCES aid up slightly in the new state budget, the overall outlook for New York 's 38 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services is better than it has been in several years, according to Vito Rinaldo of Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES, who chairs the NYSUT BOCES committee. "I think it reaffirms everyone's hard work," he said. Watch the next New York Teacher for more coverage from the BOCES conference. |
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