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...Alice L. Turkel, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), received the most votes. Robin A. Harris, a sixth grade teacher at the Benjamin Bennaken charter-school, upset incumbent Alfred B. Fantini to give the CCA a two-seat majority on the six-member committee. Joseph G. Grassi, David P. Maher, Susana M. Segat and Denise Simmons also won seats on the committee. The results are expected to be made official tomorrow...
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...
SCHOOL COMMITTEE RACEA. Fiona McKinnonGraphicName #1 VotesAlice Turkel 2,656Susana M. Segat 2,581David P. Maher 2,152Joseph G. Grassi 2,046Denise Simmons 2,026Robin A. Harris 1,972Alfred B. Fantini 1,740Charles L. Stead, Sr. 953Source: Cambridge Election Commission, unofficial first tally of No. 1 votes, based on 42 of 42 voting precincts reporting