Mayoral candidate Sam Yoon wants City Hall to take a page from banks and stay open past normal business hours at least once a week so people who work for a living could have a chance to conduct city business. In a statement, he says:
One of the most appealing solutions is to shift hours to offer later services on Wednesday and close earlier on Fridays. We would stay open until 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and close at 2:30 p.m. on Fridays. We would also be able to move the regular City Council meetings to Wednesday evening to allow more people to attend.
The bottom line is that Boston's residents are our customers (and our bosses), and we should treat them that way.
Meanwhile, Kevin McCrea, also running for a big office on the fifth floor of City Hall, says he would oppose expanding the current cap on charter schools because those schools serve mainly to create more divisions in society, through restrictive admissions policies:
... We need to work towards making all of our public schools good schools.
I went to public schools growing up in Massachusetts, Ohio, and Vermont and I am proud of the education I received. It can be done, if we have the will to actually work at it. I applaud the commitment and the work done by educators in the Charter Schools, but what we need to do is take what they have learned is working to educate kids (longer school days, longer schools years, parental involvement, discipline, acknowledgment of accomplishment) and bring that in to the public schools. ...
The other three candidates all support charter school expansion in Boston, although in different forms.
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