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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...
...time when public school reform is the talk of Washington, the city of Chelsea, just north of Boston, decided in 1989 to try their own brand of educational reform when they teamed up with Boston University in the firstever partnership between a private university and a public school system...
Many critics have attacked the experiment, in which Boston University assumed control of Chelsea's public schools, calling it an unworkable precedent. Community leaders complain they have little input in the new changes, and two groups, the Chelsea Teachers Union and the Chelsea commission of Hispanic Affairs, have filed suit against the city, protesting that the new contract violates the state constitution...
...despite these and other setbacks, the contract between B.U. and Chelsea's five-school, 3,700-student school system continues to exit. Today, Chelsea is immersed in an elaborate process of educational reform, as a series of B.U.-initiated programs unite teachers and student from Chelsea and B.U. to work together to improve the Chelsea schools...
SIDWELL FRIENDS, A PRESTIGIOUS WASHINGTON Quaker school, teaches young people the importance of simplicity. But when Chelsea Clinton begins classes there later this month, her life will be anything but simple. There'll be new friends to make, new teachers to impress, all under the watchful eye of ubiquitous attendants in bad suits and dark glasses. If that isn't enough, Chelsea will start out knowing that, fairly or not, her very presence there opens her father to the charge of being a hypocrite...