Sentences with phrase «eighties during the administration»

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Ravitch, a Yale - educated lawyer, has a long history of running into flames and rescuing institutions: the Urban Development Corporation in the seventies, Bowery Savings Bank in the eighties, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, both as chairman during Mario Cuomo's administration (they butted heads) and as the architect of the bailout plan approved by lawmakers in the spring.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.