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THE CREATION OF METCO - Coggle Diagram
THE CREATION OF METCO
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1964: Boston refuses to improve the black school's conditions, and there are no mixed schools. Freedom schools took place at churches and they supported by both white and students of color
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1968: The racial imbalance act is passed, and it says that school commitees can "adopt a plan for attendance at its schools by any child who resides in another city, town, or regional school district in which racial imbalance...exists in a public school [in order to] eliminate such racial imbalance."
1973: Jean McGuire becomes the fourth ever director of METCO and begins to lead the organization for the next 43 years
1993: METCO Directors and superintendents team up with psychologist and author Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum to create EMI, a training program that helps teachers form anti-racial policies.
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1965: Two parents, Ellen Jackson and Elizabeth Johnson encouraged black students in Roxbury to attend white-dominated schools (operation exodus) Other education leaders from Newton and Brookline were inspired by the prodject and and wanted to contribute. In collaboration with Ruth Batson they created the Metropolitan Council for Educational opportunity.
1966: 220 students raging from ages to 5 to 16 took busses to reach their schools from seven different suburbs in Boston
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