Sentences with phrase «liberal urban agenda»
RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.
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Rhee's agenda also received a big boost from liberal movie director Davis Guggenheim, whose film, «Waiting for «Superman,»» implies that teachers unions are to blame for the failures of urban education and that non-unionized charter schools are the solution.