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Among the many issues candidates stressed in the forum, which was sponsored by the Cambridge Democratic City Committee, was the need to eliminate disparities in performance between students of different races and classes. Blacks and Latinos fail and dropout much more, incumbent Alice L. Turkel said...
...Turkel said that the school choice system is "one of the finest things" in Cambridge's schools. She urged the school department to use school choice to help keep enrollment from falling...
...sure that we have so many fewer children as much as we may have a different group of children," says School Committee incumbent candidate Alice Turkel. "Families [now] have different economic resources and different values...
...thing we have to move away from in Cambridge is the sense that there are better schools and worse schools, that it's a lottery you either win or you lose," says Alice Turkel...
Thirteen candidates, including incumbents Grassi, Segat, Simmons and Alice L. Turkel, are running for six spots in what Cambridge political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71 has said will be a tight race. Cambridge's mayor--who doubles as the chair and seventh member of the School Committee--will round out the new board after the new City Council chooses a new mayor in January...