I remember working with the foundation community maybe a decade ago about realizing that all of the foundation money was going to the Pittsburgh Public Schools. We had a long conversation about the fact that most kids in this region aren’t educated in the Pittsburgh Public Schools but in the suburban schools in the six or nine counties that make up the region.

I also remember in the early part of this decade having one of those "Aha!" moments. I was asked to do a talk before the Economics Club of Pittsburgh about how the schools were doing. I went to a database and started to get some really good data about numbers of kids going on to post-secondary education, school completion rates, SAT scores. It was really good, positive data. And the reaction was, "Why don’t we know about this?"