Anyone near Otsego County have Education Department Reports?

According to the SUNY Union Catalog, SUNY's Oneonta and Binghamton have the Judicial Decisions of the Commissioner of Education.

Commissioner's Decisions Sampler

These decisions often make their way into our class demos:

• Appeal of R.S. 38 Educ. Dept. Rpts 419. Decision no. 13, 695
  
• Appeal of J.D. 39 Educ. Dept. Rpts 593 Decsision no. 14,884
  
• Appeal of EDDY Decision no. 13,748

• Appeal of C.D. Decision no. 15,041

Now, you try! Click to the Commissioner's decisions website and locate by searching or browsing (or both)

• Appeal of McKenna Dec. no. 14,774
• Appeal of Pintka Dec. No. Decision No. 13,034

Need I remind you that these are not referred to as "cases" but as appeals or matters!

Where's Education Department Reports??

For our students studying away from our home campus (and needless to say, we welcome your visit!), we've compiled a short list of libraries that may have Education Department Reports, AKA "Judicial decisions of the Commissioner of Education and formal opinions of counsel", volumes 1 to ___.

While we've tried to ascertain that these libraries own the older, paper volumes you may need for your, we can't make any guarantees. Additionally, every library has its own policies for admitting visitros to use their libraries, so please call them before you travel!

Here's a short list of nearby libraries. Google 'em for their phone numbers and to search their catalogs top verify they have the volumes you need

SUNY New Paltz

Vassar

Greene County Courthouse

Newburgh Free Library

Mount Vernon

Yonkers –Riverfront

[Many CUNY libraries]

Iona College

Concordia

Pace (and Pace Law library)

Columbia Teacher’s College

ALSO: are you familiar with worldcat.org? It's a tool for locating materials in libraries and it even informs you how far away those libraries are! Here is the search result for Education Department Reports (distances may appear with New Paltz as the origin),

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1760195&referer=brief_results

Three illustrations of what I mean

It's hard to articulate. These matters below are neither necessarily unusual or unsatisfying; but they show how courts and the Commissioner determine more than guilt or innocence.

• Woods v. Rondout Valley Central School District .

(466 F.3d 232). Eleventh Amendment issue

• Appeal of Bitteker, Dec.#14,326
  

Dismissed as untimely and moot

• Appeal of Nett and Raby, Dec. #15,315

School board member found to have breached NYS confidentiality laws but not removed from office

• Sheff v. O'neill (298 Conn. 1) [memorandum]

Connecticut court found that Hartford schools were racially segregated. Instead of acting by itself, court showed restraint, allowing the legislature and executive branch to find a remedy.