METCOとは 意味・読み方・使い方

METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity) is a Boston-based program operated and funded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It allows minority families from Boston and Springfield a chance to send their children to a suburban school system. The voluntary program has been in existence since 1966, almost a decade before forced busing began in Boston. METCO currently includes over 3,300 students in 33 school districts. It is one of only five such voluntary busing programs in the United States.