Archive for METCO Director

METCO’s contribution to Foxborough

Foxborough’s METCO Director Jesenia Castro spoke with cable access host Bob Hickey, alongside METCO, Inc. CEO Milly Arbaje-Thomas. Their conversation ranged from the benefits and struggles experienced by Boston families who take the bus out and back, to a call for the town to get involved and support the…

“Every student in Scituate is a METCO student”

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…

Brookline METCO Director becomes principal

After 11 years playing the pivotal role of overseeing the experiences of Brookline’s METCO participants, Dr. Sujan “Suzie” Talukdar has been chosen to lead one of the town’s eight elementary schools outright. As of July 1, Dr. Talukdar will be principal of the Driscoll School, which serves kindergarten through…