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 ...

A report released this week called for the expansion and continued support of the state’s Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity program, better known as METCO. The report, produced by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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