I was on the council for eight years. And I firmly believe that the next mayor and has to convince D.C. voters that they will protect home rule. I firmly believe that Our trajectory with our schools has to be maintained and mayoral control and council accountability has brought us a long way. And I know we have to grow our economy. We can't be a city that people will leave and we have to continue to attract good paying jobs to attract the jobs we could lose. (19:40–19:50)
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Asserts that mayoral control and council accountability have significantly improved D.C. schools.
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