Mike Jackson is executive vice president of Capital Markets at Supernova Companies, co-based in Chicago and New York. He is founder and volunteer CEO at the Foundation for Letters, a co-founder of the Bronx Academy of Letters, and chair of the investment committee at the Williston-Northampton School. He holds a B.A. from Yale University.

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New York’s wealthiest citizens need to step up with their checkbooks to back the city’s public schools. Equally important, they need to become real stakeholders in our shared success.