This year’s state budget marked the first time in five years that the METCO program did not receive a funding boost that at least keeps pace with inflation, and leaders at the school desegregation ...

Joanne Abbott, 12, center, of Boston as she eats her lunch with Patti Woolf, 14, left, and Sherry Grey, 14, at East Junior High School in Braintree, Mass., on Sept. 8, 1966. Some 220 African American ...

Making cuts to the METCO program, or eliminating it, was first discussed about a year ago, and then immediately withdrawn due to public complaints. But as the Override Study Committee has examined the ...

A new study sheds light on the long-term effects of the popular METCO program, which sends thousands of Boston students to learn in suburban school districts each year. Twenty years of longitudinal ...

In 1966, a group of concerned parents and community organizers, outraged by the poor quality and "de facto segregation" of Boston public schools in black neighborhoods, launched the METCO ...

BOSTON - The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) received a big blow when Governor Healey's proposed 2024 budget revealed a $500,000 cut to the popular educational program in ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Boston and Springfield have seen success participating in the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Metco), a school-integration program, and educators are calling for an ...

While a student from Boston participates in the METCO program, they become ingrained in the community, learning town customs and traditions. At the Bedford METCO programs Soul Food Dinner, the town ...

CLUE. WHAT DOES METCO STAND FOR? METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, METROPOLITAN EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION FOR CHILDHOOD OPPORTUNITY, METROPOLITAN CHILDHOOD OPPORTUNITIES OR MAKING ...