School Committee Won't Reconsider Ed Deans' Board

The majority four of the Cambridge School Committee voted without comment yesterday not to reconsider their vote of two weeks ago disbanding the deans' committee to find a new school superintendent.

The four, among them Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan and the group's senior member James Fitzgerald, listened without response to the arguments of the other three committee members led by Francis H. Duehay '55, assistant dean of the Ed School. The three were supported by the applause of the crowd and a 500-signature petition.

The four were unmoved. When the vote came it was the same as before, 4-3.

The committee, consisting of deans of education from neighboring colleges--among them Boston University, M.I.T., Tufts, and Harvard--was created last October to screen candidates for school superintendent. The post is being vacated at the end of the year by retiring superintendent John M. Tobin.

The deans had planned a nationwide search and were working without pay.

As a result of yesterday's vote, candidates will be screened by the full School Committee.