Gray Will Consider Allowing D.C.’s Universities to Grow

(Washington Examiner) — Mayor-elect Vince Gray says he will consider removing caps the District has placed on the growth of the city’s universities as part of an effort to create jobs for D.C.’s lagging economy.  The universities are required to keep to long-term planning guides that have been approved by District officials, the result of long-standing tensions between the schools and the communities that surround them. Those plans put caps on the growth of student populations, the number of employees the schools can hire and the universities’ physical size. On Monday, school officials argued during a summit on job creation led by Gray that the District should remove those caps to help grow the city’s economy.

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