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Here's a different spin on this: If DC wants to easily expand it's high-tech sector, it should encourage its universities to expand its science and engineering departments. Perhaps DC could do what all states are doing: Have a STEM budget and dole out some grants. Meanwhile, GW and GU are building new science and engineering buildings without a single dollar of DC money and bucking enormous pressure from the ANCs.

I completely agree with you Jasper. In fact, isn't this exactly what Innovation Island in NYC is? While it wasn't in the letter, I think allocating a portion of a DC Innovation Island for a technology campus of a local university, like Bloomberg did, is a great idea. DCPS now has their first ever STEM director, and obviously leveraging this investment to improve DCPS STEM programs would be a major knock-on benefit.

by Ken Archer on Jul 6, 2012 12:29 pm • link • report

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