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Just as the debate was to move to the School Committee, Turkel proposed postponing the vote until the Dec. 18 meeting...
Committee member Alice Turkel said she postponed the vote because fellow Committee member Susana Segat was absent from the meeting...
Members of the School Committee claimed that Turkel and the other Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed members of the Committee arranged for Segat to stay home in order to delay the vote...
This, some claimed, would allow Turkel to introduce and pass her amendments at the last minute, without sufficient debate. They said Turkel would then be able to pass a version of the Controlled Choice plan tailored to her own agenda...
...Turkel said she postponed the vote because she wants to introduce a set of amendments to the plan, and feared she would not have the votes to pass it without Segat’s support...