But while the candidates agreed on most issues, they disagreed in other cases.
Alfred B. Fantini, a former school board member who is trying to regain the seat he lost in the 1997 election, said the committee has become bogged down in the minutia of school decision-making.
"This School Committee has micro-managed to an extent that I thought was not possible," he said.
Fantini also criticized the school choice system Cambridge uses to make its schools socio-economically-balanced, saying that it takes too many students out of their neighborhoods.
"Kids shouldn't have to get up at 6 a.m. in the morning to travel to another part of the city," he said.
Candidate Donald Harding said that school choice makes it harder for working-class parents to be involved in their child's education.
"When you take the children from blue-collar parents out of their neighborhoods, you're not involving the parents," he said.
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