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Independent candidates were the clear winners last week in the heated school-board election contest in Princeton, N.J.

The three open seats on the regional board went to: John Clearwater, an independent, who had 801 votes; Richard Godfrey, who had been appointed to the board earlier in order to fill a vacancy and won 428 votes; and David Robbins, a member--but not a formal candidate--of a newly formed parent group in the community that is calling for revisions in the school system's mathematics curriculum. He had 654 votes.

Elections in the university community generated unusual interest this spring when eight candidates filed to run for three open seats on the school board. (See Education Week, April 8, 1992.) Many of the candidates had been fielded by parent groups that were critical of the district, which has a national reputation for academic achievement. They raised concerns, variously, about the system's treatment of minority students, about school-district finances, and about the adequacy...