METCO has given Michelle Crawford Cranmore educational ties to three Boston suburbs. Her two sons go to school in Weston through their METCO partnership; she spent five years as METCO Program Advisor in Brookline Public Schools, and this year she took on the METCO Director role down on the South Shore, in Scituate.

Her vision for METCO goes well beyond the educational outcomes for individual students. In a profile in the local paper, she says:

Every student in Scituate is a METCO student because they are all part of this experience. Recent census data suggests that Scituate is 96.8 percent white. The eight houses of worship published on the town website cater to different Christian based religions. METCO is beneficial to the Scituate community because it offers students, staff and the greater Scituate community a peek into what the world looks like outside Scituate. Our Scituate students and families who reside in Boston come from all walks of life; they represent a tapestry of races, ethnicities, cultures, religions and ways of being.

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