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When Chelsea's school committee approached Kevin Carleton, B.U.'s director of media relations, to conduct a study of the school system and offer possible methods of improvement, "there were too many problems to fix," Carleton says...
...Anything that could go wrong had," Carleton says. "There was no curriculum beside the daily lesson plan. The schools were underfunded, there was no computerization, the teachers were underpaid...even the buildings were falling apart...
...Chelsea was a plane going down," Carleton says. "The school committee bailed out and the city crashed and burned...
Despite Chelsea's problems, B.U. continued the long process of reform. Carleton says long-term plans involve improving attendance rates, improving graduation rates, and addressing faculty needs...
Only yesterday, it seems, he was entrenched as the world's premier sprinter and jumper. After four Olympic gold medals in 1984 and two in '88, F. Carleton Lewis (he strongly prefers Carl) last August recorded an astonishing 100-m world record. But almost simultaneously, the end of the Lewis era began to be visible...