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Richard D. Kahlenberg

How to save Metco

By Richard D. Kahlenberg
November 13, 2007

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THE LONGSTANDING Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity program is in serious legal trouble, and well-meaning state officials are further jeopardizing its future. Since 1966, the program, better known as Metco, has given minority students in Boston the opportunity to attend more affluent, largely white suburban schools, in an effort to offer those students a better education and provide host schools ... (Full article: 755 words)

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