Taylor Coester Answers as to how the Cambridge School Committee awarded an extra $40,000 payment to a search firm will have to wait at least two weeks. The invoice for that money was set aside at Tuesday night’s meeting pending legal advice.

While School Committee members expressed outrage, suspicion and confusion, the committee’s chair, Cambridge mayor E. Denise Simmons, reminded them that over the past year of searching for a new district leader, “we had a full and active and fully engaged process of the entire School Committee.” Then she promised a meeting of a governance committee to get answers for her colleagues about specifics of the process.

But committee member Rachel Weinstein responded that the $40,000 contract came as as surprise when it was revealed in October . Most comm

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