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When committee member Alfred B. Fantini tried to strike a key provision that board member Alice L. Turkel had said she favored, Turkel lost patience...
...then, as the committee was just about to take a final vote that likely would have repeated the Jan. 23 decision, Turkel--the crucial swing vote--offered a last-minute amendment to salvage a compromise shortly after...
...what Turkel called a "huge concession," the measure does not guarantee that parental choice will return...
...while E. Denise Simmons and Turkel changed their votes, committee members Susana M. Segat and Nancy Walser voted against last night's measure, saying they wanted assurances from administrators that parental choice would factor into assignments at CRLS in the future. They also objected that administrators had left plans for the development of the five small schools too vague...
That consistent split led Fantini to call the vote two weeks ago a "political" one and to condemn Segat, Simmons, Turkel and Walser for their "divisive posture...