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The Cambridge School Committee Tuesday night slashed the budget of the committee of Ed School deans created to help search for a new superintendent, and threatened to dismiss the advisory group before it can make any recommendations.
A motion to give the Steering Committee, which includes Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School, $6000 fell to a substitute motion setting aside $1000 "for School Committee use" in the superintendent search.
In two weeks the Committee will vote on a motion to rescind all its previous motions related to hiring a new superintendent, thereby dissolving the advisory group proposed this fall be retiring Committeeman George Olesen. The motion appears to have the support of the four independents on the seven-man committee.
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