Private School Shortage Cited After Billionaire Moves Firm To Miami

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Two years after billionaire Ken Griffin moved Citadel to Miami, his biggest concern is the shortage of private schools here, according to the NY Post.

Griffin announced a donation earlier this year to a 2-year old private Catholic school in North Miami, according to the Herald.

Citadel’s relocation was announced in 2022, and the company has been working out of offices in downtown Miami and Brickell.

In August, the company unveiled plans for a $1B supertall headquarters tower in Brickell, which will also include a hotel.

Construction is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2025.

 

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truee
14 days ago

And extremely underfunded public schools, being robbed of even basic necessities.

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Brickell
14 days ago

For Ken, and the Gov, that’s a feature, not a bug

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Nov 6 is Liberal Tears Day
14 days ago

MDC public schools have plenty of money. The problems are what’s being taught and the idiot kids that attend them.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Not to mention all the money begged for is squandered by the school board and teachers union, never making it to the kids or rank-and-file teachers.

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Santi
13 days ago

Bingo!

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Santi
13 days ago

Why is this myth still alive?

This is crazy hyperbole, an you have never been in a public school classroom in the last 5 years.

“robbed of basic necessities” What? Who is robbing the schools? Are they taking the roofs? Are they stealing the A/C Units?

If any of what you are saying is true, we need to stop this madness!!!

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Jenna
14 days ago

We should invest more also in more graduate programs to attract and create more talents for high paying jobs

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Marina
14 days ago

Miami Dade College could become like NYU if they expand their programs and build up more campuses. They sure plenty of room to build downtown.

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Dexter
14 days ago

They should pair up with NYU or some other major name.

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Community College Cred
14 days ago

They should pair up with Harvard and teach brain surgery to the 700-SAT score kids at MDC.

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Dan
14 days ago

Lol

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Oh sure, and a Kia is a Bentley.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Miami greatly needs to attract more students (undergraduate and graduate) to have a greater pool of young professionals long term. I am a young professional at a large fortune 100 company in Miami and the only promotion opportunities are in NYC. I am really hoping more companies bring jobs and talent here because we need more young professionals. Miami needs to become a place where you make something of yourself here and not just place to hang out after you already made it big.

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Miami paying for Tallahassee decisions
14 days ago

Sadly I think with the amendments not passing, it’s going to be more challenging to attract universities, young professionals, and big companies. Anyone who says this is not true doesn’t understand how these organizations are run

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Anon
14 days ago

So, you think investment bankers and IT managers won’t relocate to Florida because pot is illegal and their women can’t get abortions? Think again. 80 degree winters and no state tax go a long way in the world.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Those amendments, marijuana and women’s right to get an abortion, passed the popular vote but republicans made the rules too hard to win

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Wrong
13 days ago

Their wives probably won’t want to move nor will those straight out of college. The whole reason people were moving here was Covid people made them realize they could live a better quality of life down here due to things like you said including low taxes and good weather but limiting the freedoms that the majority wanted counteracts that for a lot of people.

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Anon
13 days ago

^^Investment bankers and IT managers don’t care about smoking pot or getting abortions–that’s for store clerks and day laborers. Brainy producers do wine tastings and use contraceptives.

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LOL
13 days ago

What an out of touch answer. When One Brickell City Center and One Bayfront Plaza can’t find enough tenants and the lots remain empty holes, you’ll remember this. Big corporations care a lot about optics. Unless of course by some miracle Florida answers the concerns of the majority and returns to being the “truly free”state like the premise that made it so promising a few years ago

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Anon
13 days ago

^^”out of touch” is a lame liberal phrase for “I don’t agree”. Big corps care about lower governmental interference and taxes far more than touchy feely “optics”. What makes you feel good on campus isn’t what makes decision makers feel good in the boardrooms.

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Touch This
13 days ago

Big corps care about profits and taxation, not optics.

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Baxter Stockman
9 days ago

The migration of wealthy people began BEFORE Covid was used.

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Anon
11 days ago

Many won’t relocate here when they realize that Florida is a low education high poverty state that makes nothing except real estate bubbles and tourism. Throw in the fact that Miami, its star city, is a city full of poor immigrants who can barely speak English, and where less than 50 percent of the population has a high school diploma, and you’ll understand why for many Florida is not the attractive option many here want it to be.

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Anon
11 days ago

^^Evidently The Citadel (as well as Thom Bravo and The Ichan Group) don’t agree with you.

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Voltaire
12 days ago

Why ? Do we need to be k… babies and legalizing dr@gs for universities and young professionals move here?

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Santi
13 days ago

This works like this for many people. My first job on Brickell paid $18,000 per year plus bonus and I was 22. I’m now an old professional….making money, but hanging out means yard work and a barbecue on the weekends.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

PRIVATE schools don’t need PUBLIC investment…

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Santi
13 days ago

We should invest?
I think that they universities are doing a great job addressing the market. In fact, I invested in about $90,000 of my own money in my graduate degree in Miami!
The talent that i’m hiring is paying very well, and you do not need a graduate degree to make over $200,000 per year.
If you love what you do, save your money, invest in yourself and don’t invest in universites. Most are bloated and to not have the right cost benefit trade offs.

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Downtowner
14 days ago

Here’s a radical notion: Try a public school.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Florida’s public school magnet programs are among the best in the country, with many alumni achieving remarkable success—such as Grammy-winning music careers, groundbreaking work in civil rights law, professional sports achievements, Tony-nominated Broadway performances, and even receiving the Medal of Honor for military service.

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Anon
14 days ago

Who needs a magnet program education when you can go through life using ChatGPT?

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Anonymous
14 days ago

ChatGPT cant do what I do

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Anon
13 days ago

^^It just did 21 hours ago.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Oh please. I’m public school educated too, but my success has been in spite of that, not because of that. I would send my kids to private school in a heartbeat if I had any.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Would you send your children, which you probably have none of and never will, to Edison? That’s what I thought…

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Anon
14 days ago

What about Palmetto or Kropp? Keep thinking….

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Santi
13 days ago

In order to send your kids to Edison, you have to live near Edison.

This entire opinion piece is about a rumor that there are not enough Private Schools in Miami.

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Anon
14 days ago

Yes, public schools are an option, also investments in new private schools. If there is demand they should build them.

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Santi
13 days ago

Someone is.

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Santi
13 days ago

Jeff Bezos and Katanji Brown Jackson are public school graduates from Palmetto Senior High and have done alright for themselves.

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Taxed Out
14 days ago

There’s also a country club shortage. Woah is me.

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Taxed Out
14 days ago

Woe**

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Anonymous
14 days ago

WPB is getting a Vandy school. Maybe Miami can get a Notre Dame one? Especially an architecture program…

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Anonn
14 days ago

UMiami already has an Architecture program. Used to be one of the very few schools that taught more traditional architecture, along with ND. Now it’s all fantasy land design

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Wrong
13 days ago

Maybe not architecture but I like the idea of a Notre Dame famous similar to Vandy in WPB. We could probably use 3 of these satellites given how much bigger Miami is.

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Santi
13 days ago

Such a bad opinion piece in the New York Post.
The opinion piece cites “company insiders” and never quotes anyone specific. It is what anyone has come to expect from the New York Post, they constantly knock S. Florida in their business section, and that perverse sign that the business leaders in S. Florida are doing thing right!

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Wayne H
13 days ago

Why do you think Vanderbilt university is building a campus in west palm beach?

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anon
13 days ago

West Palm is an entire 2 hours- and a world away- from Miami.

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Home School Valedictorians
14 days ago

He can afford to have someone come in and homeschool his kids.

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Anon
14 days ago

He’s concerned about his employees and their families.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

It shouldn’t be too hard for them to find somewhere that will take their $40k/yr in tuition checks that are burning holes in their pockets.

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Santi
13 days ago

For 5th graders and up, the Citadel kids tuition is much more than $40k.
The cost isn’t the problem, the schools just can’t expand quickly enough.

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Anon
14 days ago

Did you have a tear in your eye when you typed that? I did reading it.

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Ramona
14 days ago

what happened to the Avenue school plans some nyc investors were putting together for Miami ?

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Santi
13 days ago

Cancelled:
Avenues decided to sell its New York and São Paulo campuses to Nord Anglia Education of the UK. Avenues is also exiting their China and Silicon Valley locations.

Their global expansion is off.

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Ramona
13 days ago

I think there’s a market for a top elite school …I thought Ken Griffin was also looking into it….

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Michael Cohen
12 days ago

Either Griffin or Citadel has made major contributions to my kid’s school.
That is the rumor anyway.
An anonymous donor made the largest gift in history, and suddenly, Citadel kids were jumping up the waitlists.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Don’t worry, Trump will fix it. LOL

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Trump supported Amendment 3 (marijuana), which won the popular vote but didn’t meet DeSantis’s threshold or get his backing. It’ll be interesting to see the divide between the liberal and conservative sides of the Republican party, as Trump’s moderate social policies seem to align more with Florida’s mainstream in both parties.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Umm, that’s State law that requires an amendment to receive sixty percent of the vote, and has been for years. Presumably, you didn’t know that.

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Santi
13 days ago

Hopefully not.

Hopefully he stays true to his policy to keep the Federal Government out of the local schools.

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Einstein
13 days ago

Hopefully, the government in Tallahassee will embrace educational values and policies that align more closely with the views of Floridians and foster a space for diverse perspectives. Education should not serve a political agenda; rather, it should be a dynamic process of growth and evolution.

This is why Florida voters strongly voiced their desire to keep politics out of education.

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Baxter Stockman
9 days ago

From my experience attending school in Florida, sending a kid to school in Florida, teaching in Florida schools, I am very pleased with the way Florida embraces educational values. They align with me.

Politics most certainly is a part of education, but the trend is getting better. The new school voucher program is phenomenal, yet, some of the very best private schools do not want the hassle of participating.

It is VERY helpful for the students in failing Public Schools.

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educated privately
14 days ago

good private schools are in broward and west palm

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Joe
14 days ago

That’s a money making idea right there.

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Paul Dc
13 days ago

So naive .. the bulk of citadel staff remains in nyc and Chi ..and does not want to move.
NYC remains safer than south Florida .. and as to weather … each has 6 good months!!

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Anon
13 days ago

^^They won’t for long, unless they want to be desempleados, as their jobs are soon heading here.
Miami has MUCH nicer weather than either of those places.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

If the state focused less on banning books and bullying liberal parents and teachers, and eased restrictions that create a challenging environment for teachers, allowing them to teach freely and authentically, we might retain more educators.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

Gender ideology and CRT… truly the most competitive studies for a lucrative job market.

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Anonymous
14 days ago

The bill was written with other objectives and broadened so far beyond that, but a compromise was reached. We all know there are no classes on these topics.

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Santi
13 days ago

Public School teachers (the smart ones) are racing to Private Schools. Often the pay is less, but so are the headaches associated with forced financial contributions to Union Bosses.

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