5. School District Support Services, 1961-2004 (bulk 1972-1990)

Series 5. School District Support Services consists of records created by the coordinators of the school districts and records created by the individual school districts between 1961-2004.

Coordinators (1.5 cubic ft.) consists of records created by the individual coordinators between 1961-1996. These documents include: meeting information and minutes; surveys; correspondence; job descriptions; policies; and lists of coordinators for each school district. All coordinators' correspondence is restricted.

School Districts (12 cubic ft.), 1965-2004, is organized by school district into eight sections: Community Information/Activities; Correspondence; Curriculum; Meeting Minutes; Newsletters; Proposals; School Audits; and School Records. Community Information/Activities includes newspaper articles, flyers for activities, and information about towns including town meeting minutes and annual reports. Correspondence contains letters to and from METCO staff in individual school districts and also the correspondence of the superintendents. Curriculum includes information on an individual school district's curricula, particularly multicultural education curricula materials. Records concerning METCO's curriculum department's activities can be found in Series 3. Curriculum. Meeting Minutes includes the minutes of school district meetings as well as reports conducted by school boards and addressed during these meetings. Newsletters includes school newsletters. Proposals includes yearly requests for funding (grant proposals) and requests for new staff positions. School Audits contains lists of METCO students in attendance in each school district. School Records contains information about the schools, including: reports, school calendars, snow chains and school handbooks. It is important to note that this series not only documents the school districts where METCO currently operates or has operated; it also documents school districts that considered joining or attempted to join METCO but never became a functioning component of the educational program. At the end of this subseries are school profiles, which give an overview of each school system's operations.