Another thought about vocational education and small business development

I mentioned at the Citizen Summit that when you talk to people who own small businesses in the DC area, often if they are of a certain age, it turns out that they went to schools like Armstrong and Phelps, vocational high schools that were closed by DC Public Schools in the 1990s.

Too many people think of vocational education quite narrowly. First, many people who get a vocational education do go on to college. Second, many people with a vocational education later go on to open new businesses, acquire businesses, etc.

So one way to think of vocational education is as one of the seeds of small business development.