Cambridge is a great example….the district itself is “integrated,” funding is gigantic per student, and black student achievement is among worst in Massachusetts.

I put “integrated” in quotes b/c at the high school, kids may be in the same building, but it’s not they’re evenly mixed within classes.

METCO won’t release their data. But it seems like the 3,000 black students they bus to the suburbs don’t do much better, based on one district which did study its METCO outcomes — Brookline. And one would think that if METCO did have data showing kids doing well, they’d use it in their annual battle for funding.