Ken Griffin

the challenges that Illinois has faced.

I mean, the governor of Illinois has overseen a state that literally is, there are more murders in Chicago on a bad weekend than there is in Miami in a year.

There are 50-some schools in the state of Illinois where not a single child is at grade level.

Not one child is at grade level.

50 schools in Illinois.

And I was with the governor of the state of Florida just a few days ago.

We welcomed Success Academies to South Florida.

They're going to open several new schools in the Miami area.

There are hundreds of thousands of kids in the state of Florida who are in charter schools.

And I know Eva Moskowitz was blown away by one thing.

Everybody, everybody extended her the warmest of welcomes.

We want her in Miami.

We want our children to have the future that success academies will prepare them for.

I mean, these will be kids that will go on from every socioeconomic background, that will go on to have great careers and great lives because they've had a great K-12 education.

And there's nothing more powerful than when your governor, your head of education, the head of the local college are all just embracing you to come there.

In contrast, here in New York, she's always fighting an uphill battle.

with the unions, and with many members of the political class to do what is, to use a word that was used in finance years ago, but to do God's work to help children who have really, really challenging backgrounds get ahead.

I mean, I can't believe that she struggles like she does in New York to open new schools, and we in Miami are so excited to welcome her to the great state of Florida.

So the big wild card in the United States, of course, on the philanthropic side in education is our university system.

And there's one thing that makes it very clear that our universities need to change how they do business.