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Announcing Manhattan Institute’s 2013 Award Honorees Monday, May 6, 2013

HONORING:

Kenneth G. Langone President & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC

Governor Bobby Jindal 55th Governor, State of Louisiana

For their outstanding support for education reform, the Manhattan Institute honored Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and Kenneth Langone with the 2013 Alexander Hamilton Award. To highlight their accomplishments in education policy, Harlem Children’s Zone president & CEO Geoffrey Canada and former NYC schools chancellor Joel Klein delivered introductory remarks.

On Monday, May 6, 2013, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is ’s largest and most influential free-market think tank. This was the thirteenth Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, an annual black-tie fundraiser held at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan. The award recognizes leaders who exemplify Hamiltonian values: civic leadership, fiscal restraint, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual dynamism. A crowd of New York’s business, media, and philanthropic elite—over 625 strong—attended in support of the Institute. The dinner raised over $1.6 million this year for the Manhattan Institute.

“Education reform is one of the most important policy issues in the country. It is of particular importance to the mayoral race here in . The quality and efficiency of our education system will determine the course of our economic future for generations to come,” said Manhattan Institute President Lawrence Mone.

Since taking office, Governor Jindal has been in the vanguard of education reform, adopting the nation’s most meaningful teacher-quality legislation and promoting a robust school-choice program.

Kenneth Langone has contributed profoundly to the vitality of our home city. Thanks to his philanthropy, New York boasts one of the greatest medical centers in the world dedicated to education, patient care, and research, as well one of the best business programs in the country.

The Alexander Hamilton Award was created to honor those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the nation’s civic and intellectual life. The award is named after Hamilton because, like the Manhattan Institute, he was a man of both ideas and action.

Previous award winners include Klein, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly, former mayor Rudy Giuliani, author Tom Wolfe, former governor Mitch Daniels (Indiana), New York archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan, and philanthropists Roger Hertog, Charles Brunie, and Mortimer Zuckerman. More information is available online at http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ah_2013.htm.

Full video of the event will be available soon at www.manhattan-institute.org.

The Manhattan Institute, a 501 (c)(3), is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility. www.manhattan-institute.org

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