{"id":366625,"date":"2021-11-13T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ronald-lauder-plans-to-save-nyc-gifted-and-talented-program\/"},"modified":"2021-11-13T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:59:57","slug":"ronald-lauder-plans-to-save-nyc-gifted-and-talented-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ronald-lauder-plans-to-save-nyc-gifted-and-talented-program\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ronald Lauder plans to save NYC gifted and talented program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Ronald Lauder plans to save NYC gifted and talented program<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ronald Lauder is planning a seven-figure gift for the gifted.<\/p>\n<p>The cosmetics billionaire and philanthropist is preparing a full-court press to save the city\u2019s gifted and talented program.<\/p>\n<p>The advertising and PR campaign comes despite Mayor-elect Eric Adams promise to reverse Mayor de Blasio\u2019s decision to scrap the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust Eric Adams completely,\u201d Lauder insisted, saying the two recently had a friendly visit at the billionaire\u2019s Manhattan home. \u201c[But] I think that when he gets in, there\u2019s going to be a lot of pressure on him to get rid of it, because there are many, many interests that are not necessarily about the future of gifted and talented schools and more about what is \u2026 political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lauder and his longtime partner in education issues, former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, have partnered with the the consulting shop Tusk Strategies, which most recently ran Andrew Yang\u2019s mayoral campaign.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRonald Lauder and Dick are going to give Mayor-elect Adams paid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> support to help their case,\u201d Tusk Co-CEO Chris Coffey told The Post. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-697.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"More than 200 supporters of the city\u2019s Gifted and Talented program massed at Department of Education headquarters Thursday \" class=\"wp-image-20136080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-697.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-697.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-697.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Supporters of the city\u2019s Gifted and Talented program demonstrate at Department of Education headquarters.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"> jasminephoto.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The spend will go to digital, print and radio ads with television spots also possible. The campaign will also team with grassroots groups to lobby the new City Council and is preparing \u201cactivist stunts\u201d with parent groups to make sure the issue stays in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t a hard dollar amount. People familiar with the plans say $500,000 has already been budgeted in the coming weeks, and millions more is ready to go if needed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s not Lauder\u2019s first foray into education issues. He and Parsons successfully fought to defend the city\u2019s endangered Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, spending millions on that effort since 2019 through their <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.educationequity.nyc\/\">Education Equity Campaign<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDe Blasio could not have been a worse mayor for education and we fought him and we won on specialized schools but it wasn\u2019t easy,\u201d Lauder recalled. <\/p>\n<p>Critics have called both the SHSAT and the gifted and talented programs racist, citing poor minority enrollment numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call anything racist. It\u2019s open to all, so how can it be racist?\u201d Lauder said, dismissing the charge. <\/p>\n<p>He said the achievement gap among minority students had to do with access to test prep and crowed about results showing minority students tutored by EEC significantly outperformed the citywide average.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-695.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Gifted and Talented protesters\" class=\"wp-image-20136093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-695.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-695.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/lauder-695.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Critics of gifted and talented programs have called them racist.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/John Minchillo, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lauder, 77, ran for mayor himself in 1989 (losing the GOP nomination to Rudy Giuliani) and spent $4 million on a successful campaign to implement term limits on elected city leaders in 1993. 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The cosmetics billionaire and philanthropist is preparing a full-court press to save the city\u2019s gifted and talented program. 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