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Marc Elrich - Part I - Candidate for County Executive
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Elrich discusses:
- Schools
- Close Achievement Gap
- Correlation between performance / poverty
- Address underlying social issues
- Reduce class size
- For college prep
- For vocational (non-college)
- Adjust curriculum
- If we say we are doing smart growth, we really ought to do smart growth
- Development
- There are enough vacancies to fill 66,000 jobs
- Fill commercial real estate vacancies and provide
- Workforce doesn’t necessarily match needs of employers
- Business incubators
- Support entrepreneurs
- Provide people opportunities to start and grow businesses
- How can we streamline this
- What are obstacles for new businesses to start
- Create study group on this with Sidney Katz for current council
- Make sure regulations aren’t prohibiting businesses from affordably / sensibly occupying existing spaces
- Big Biz Manage
- Small Biz Manage
- Coop
- Real estate venture
- 19 years on Takoma Park City Council
- Experience
- Different perspectives
- No yes men
- Listen / keep an open mind
- On forming a team to run the county
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