Our schools should not be disconnected from the business world. Our educators and business leaders should contemplate where our economy is heading - so our schools will prepare students to participate. Any help you can provide in this effort will make a difference in our schools every day - and continue to make a difference as our kids enter the workforce. Or if you have technology skills, you can become a member of Tech Corps Maryland. Please consider helping us out.
Technology has enormous potential to change ordinary people's lives.
And the technology economy can dramatically change our city's economic fortunes. As mayor, I intend, primarily, to keep city government focused on the basics - like garbage collection, public safety and education. We will redirect our energy into being an effective and reliable partner for residents and businesses - rather than trying to be all things to all people. But as most of government focuses on the delivery of basic services, institutions like Johns Hopkins give us the freedom to dream of bigger things. I dream of a day when most kids in Baltimore will go from wired schools to wired workplaces in an economy that is growing as fast as our city's population.