"The Impact of a Boston Desegregation Busing Program on Student Outcomes"

"The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program in Boston is a voluntary program for urban students and suburban school districts, that busses non-White students from Boston to wealthier, Whiter suburbs.

"Elizabeth Setren examines how participation in the METCO program affected students over the period 1991 through 2020.

"METCO students attend schools where a much higher percentage of the students plan to go to a four-year college than in the Boston public school system..

"Boston students who are bused to suburban school districts through the METCO school desegregation program have stronger academic and labor market outcomes than similar students who apply to be bussed but are not selected..

"At age 35, on average, students who were selected to participate in the METCO program make $16,250 more than those who applied to the program but were not selected from the waitlist."
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes
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Boston NAACP leaders and others called school boycotts and a general workers' strike ... But two who survive, Hubie Jones, who called for the general ...

Before federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s school desegregation order in 1974 led to an explosion of white opposition in some Boston neighborhoods, Black leaders had spent about a decade trying just about everything they could to secure a better educat…#BostonDesegregation #bostonpublicschools #Metco #RuthBatson #segregation #TomAtkins
Before filing lawsuit, Black leaders pressed for better schools in 1960s - The Bay State Banner

#METCO brought black students in #Boston to ~white school districts starting in 1966

"It worked, because many of the adults I come in contact with talk positively, not about their experience, but about where they are now. If they hadn't gone to that school, as opposed to the Boston Public Schools, they wouldn't be where they are now. So that's the reward of the sacrifices they made during that time."
https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2023/09/26/boston-busing-metco-education-segregation
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#education #race #segregation #massachusetts #desegregation

For anyone who’s interested in #mapoli and how metro #Boston became a tech powerhouse and a suburban bastion of upper-class liberalism in the late-20th Century, this is a must read #bookrec !!

Lily Geismer covers the development and intersection of hyper-local MA governance, #zoning & environmental preservation, educational fiefdoms & #METCO, #MIT & #DoD, taxes & prop2.5, and more, by focusing on data from key towns and cities along routes 2 and 128.