Metrowest Daily News 3/29/19: Tony Laing to lead Wayland METCO program. The school district has hired a new METCO director to replace Mabel Reid-Wallace who will be leaving the job on Friday – three months earlier than previously announced. Tony Laing, now director of the Men of Color Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, starts in Wayland on Aug. 1. “I’m excited (to come to Wayland),” said Laing in a phone interview. “It’s a great opportunity to work within a community of students and parents committed to educational outcomes for students of color.”