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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...
...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...
Simmons motioned for a study to consider the use of school-bus monitors to enforce proper student behavior. Included in the study, at the request of committee member Alice L. Turkel, will be an analysis of bus routes and student pickup and dropoff needs...
Currently, many students do not wait for the bus at their assigned stop, choosing instead to walk a few blocks to a friend's stop. In the afternoon, similar problems arise with students' visiting friends and other children attending after-school programs. Bus routes must accomodate the students schedules, Turkel said...
...mayor was wonderful--she met tirelessly with the city manager and advocated for the schools," Turkel said...