City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0016R

• File #: 12-0016R
• Version: 0
• Name: National Entrepreneurship Week - February 18-25
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/6/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 2/6/2012
• Title: National Entrepreneurship Week - February 18-25 FOR the purpose of recognizing National Entrepreneurship Week, February 18-25, as a time to focus on innovative ways that entrepreneurship education can be used to help our children unlock their dreams.
• Sponsors: President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Brandon M. Scott, Nick Mosby, Warren Branch, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, William "Pete" Welch, William H. Cole, IV
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/6/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
2/6/2012	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
2/6/2012	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Council President Young



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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National Entrepreneurship Week - February 18-25

FOR the purpose of recognizing National Entrepreneurship Week, February 18-25, as a time to focus on innovative ways that entrepreneurship education can be used to help our children unlock their dreams.
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Recitals

In 2006, Congress passed a resolution calling for an annual “National Entrepreneurship Week” that would “focus on the innovative ways in which entrepreneurship education can bring together core academic, technical, and problem solving skills essential for future entrepreneurs and successful workers in future workplaces”.

While discussing the importance of America’s tradition of entrepreneurship to the historical success of our economy and society, that resolution also pointed out that, besides supporting economic growth, entrepreneurship education “has been shown to be especially effective in closing the achievement gap between minority students and others in public schools” and that “students who participate in entrepreneurship education programs have better attendance records, perform better on core subjects, and have lower dropout rates than those who do not participate in these programs”.

In today’s economy, encouraging successful entrepreneurship may well hold the key to sustaining the current recovery and ensuring long-term Americ...