Making cuts to the METCO program, or eliminating it, was first discussed about a year ago, and then immediately withdrawn due to public complaints.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 ...

Local community members got their first chance Monday night to weigh in on a new proposed admissions policy for the school desegregation program known as METCO, where suburban schools take in ...

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 Aftican American ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Hundreds of students and parents roamed the halls of the State House on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers to support increased funding for the largest school integration program in the ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity Inc. (METCO) is seeking a 10% funding increase for fiscal 2026. Founded in 1966, METCO is a state-funded program that allows urban students to ...

When a first grade seat opened up for Nita Holder’s son seven years ago in Melrose through Metco, a public school integration program, it seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up, a chance for a ...

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 ...

WEBVTT KAREN: ONE ORGANIZATION SEEKINGTO CLOSE THE EDUCATION GAP FORALL STUDENTS OF COLOR.IT'S BEEN 50 YEARS.HELLO, EVERYONE, I'M KARENHOLMES WARD, WELCOME TO"CITYLINE." IT WAS THE FALL OF 1966 AND ...

My best friend in kindergarten, Eddie Linton, did not live in one of the spacious houses on the hill in the Boston suburb where I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Belmont, which is best known for its ...