Lycee leader to step down at school year’s end

Keith Bartlett — who led Lycee Francais away from the brink of catastrophe five years ago and has since overseen the doubling of its student population and secured a top performance rating from the state — will retire at the end of the 2017-18 school year, he announced.

“I was only supposed to be here one year, and this is year number five,” Bartlett said. “It just looks like it’s the right time.”