Professor Simmons to give METCO Director’s Association Conference keynote address December 4, 2015.

Professor Simmons to give METCO Director’s Association Conference keynote address December 4, 2015. (See Announcement here).

The METCO Directors’ Association (MDA), founded in 1975, provides educational leadership in the areas of school desegregation, academic achievement for students of color, multicultural education, and parent empowerment. The MDA membership is comprised of concerned professionals who serve as METCO Directors or Coordinators in more than thirty suburban communities in the metropolitan Boston area.

Massachusetts’ METCO program (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity) enables students who live in Boston and Springfield to attend opportunity-rich suburban schools. METCO is one of eight voluntary interdistrict school desegregation programs in the United States and the second longest-running program of its kind.