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...Tuesday, Feb. 20, Cambridge parents, teachers and all who were watching the cablecast of the School Committee meeting witnessed a shameful display of partisan politics. Members Duehay, Simmons, Segat and Turkel, the supposed enlightened members of the committee, had privately decided to elect a vice chair. Despite the objections of David Maher and Joseph Grassi that a motion for such an election was out of order because it did not appear on the Feb. 20 meeting agenda and therefore failed to provide notice to interested persons, Acting Chair Duehay allowed a motion by Alice Turkel, seconded by Susana Segat...
...Alice Turkel, the CCA member who proposed Tuesday's vote, said the Alliance's objections are reasonable, but added that she went out of her way to prepare the coalition's committee members for the election...
...Turkel said that the committee's compromise was made prior to a separate City Council agreement that Duehay would act as school committee chair until a mayor was elected...
...Turkel points to Cambridge's primary schools as a possible source of the problem...
...look carefully, I think we will find that it's happening in the elementary schools. I don't think we're serving our children effectively for nine years, and then they are suddenly falling out of school," Turkel said...