In 1987, Mario Cuomo—who served as Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, and a team of New York municipal leaders, invited NCEE's "initial staff of five people" to Rochester to implement the Carnegie Report's recommendations. In 1987, the Carnegie Corporation provided Tucker with the financial assistance to establish the National Center on Education and the Economy in 1988, as an "independent institution to continue the policy development work begun by the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy." In 1988, "NCEE opened its doors in Rochester."