The Providence Journal
Municipal leaders at the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors examined the benefits of, and challenges to, introducing widespread out-of-school time (OST) programming in cities. “You can’t expect schools to do all of the work,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino observed during an OST forum that also featured leaders from Chicago and Providence. All three cities are taking part in a Wallace initiative to build citywide systems of high quality, well-attended OST programming. The speakers noted that expanding and improving OST requires everything from getting nonprofit OST providers to work together to loosening control by custodians over how school buildings are used in non-school hours.
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