Word: turkel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial count of No. 1 votes gave incumbent Alice L. Turkel, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), 2,565 votes, the most of the eight contenders for the city's school board in yesterday's election...
Analysts predicted last night that the ballots of the two top vote-getters, Turkel and Segat, will be reallotted, mostly to Simmons and Harris...
...Still, Turkel said she believes the committee must address the performance disparities among Cambridge's 15 elementary schools...
Although the Alliance is somewhat more conservative than the CCA, the resolution of the previously divisive rent-control issue has brought the two parties together, Turkel said. "They are [now] very similar in ideology," she said...
...race for the Cambridge School Committee features fewer candidates, and looks to be a tighter field. Of the six incumbents running for re-election, we endorse E. Denise Simmons, Alice L. Turkel, Alfred B. Fantini and Joseph G. Grassi. Simmons initiated an important program in which school employees reach out to uninvolved parents. Turkel was instrumental in hiring popular Bobbie D'Alessandro as the new school superintendent, and has also worked hard on curricular issues. Fantini has successfully lobbied the state to pay for school renovations, and Grassi should be rewarded for crossing party lines to vote in favor...