An Education
Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo appearance at Turnaround for Children’s first-ever fundraising benefit last night at the Plaza, providing moms like Tory Burch, Uma Thurman, and Emily Mortimer with a couple of different talking points during the speech he gave while appetizers were being served: He’s an avid sports fan, and he’s extremely dedicated to New York City’s public schools. While the Boston-born New Yorker was cagey about his favorite hometown baseball team (”I’m a Celtics fan,” he teased), he wasn’t playing around when it came to education. “It’s not the kids that are failing in our schools,” Bloomberg stated. “It’s the schools that are failing our kids.”
Turnaround’s tagline is “Transforming the Most Challenged Public Schools,” and the guests of honor—Merryl Tisch, Perri Peltz, and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein—were all recognized for their contributions to the cause. Klein, who grew up in public housing in Queens, made this analogy: “It’s been said we’re not going to fix education until we fix poverty, but I say we’re not going to fix poverty until we fix the educational system.” Hopefully, last night’s dinner and live auction, which raised $1.1 million, is a step in the right direction.
—Derek Blasberg
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