South Carolina's migrant programs offered educational opportunities for migratory children during the regular school year and the summer months. The intrastate programs primarily served migratory children whose home-base was South Carolina during the regular school year. During the summer, the interstate programs served children primarily from…

The Education Commission of the States appointed a task force composed of members of Congress, state legislatures, state boards of education, chief state school officers, business, industry and other pertinent service agencies to recommend to the Federal, state and local governments methods whereby interstate and interagency cooperation can…

In this third report the Task Force focuses on the whole child in an attempt to help all agencies--responsible for any services to migrants--improve the total range of services needed by migrant farmworkers and fishers, and thus improve the migrant child's chances for a basic education. The recommendations explore two topics new to the Task Force…

The primary objectives of this 6-state project for developing state leadership in improving the educational opportunities of farm migrant children are (1) to coordinate and articulate the efforts of 6 state departments of education (Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Oregon, and Washington) in assisting school systems to identify the…

The most obvious and difficult problem facing educators of migrant children is that of frequent interruptions in the child's education caused by his migration. Various solutions have been put forth over the past three decades; these have included providing mobile schools and staff, residential schools, uniform record transfers, interstate credit…

During the 1976-77 school year, South Carolina operated regular school term and summer programs for intrastate and interstate migrant children in grades K-12. Two centers, which provided primarily tutorial services in the basic skills, served 1,926 students during the regular school year. During the summer, 15 education centers, located in 10…

In its second year the Task Force identified four areas for in-depth analysis, deliberation, and recommendations development: early childhood education, planning for intra- and interstate coordination of migrant education, academic information and credit exchange, and parent involvement. Because migrant families may need educational and other…

The 1982-83 report on the Individualized Bilingual Instruction (IBI) Interstate Training Project evaluates Project activities in Washington and Texas, funded through Section 143 of the Migrant Education Interstate and Intrastate Coordination Program. The purpose of the Project is stated: to disseminate the Pasco (Washington) School District's…

Specifically organized for the use of school districts that are located adjacent to each other but across state lines, this manual provides guidelines and procedures for determining the feasibility of sharing services across those state boundaries. The activities specified in the manual utilize school district information that is readily…

The first section of this report describes the objectives, project organization, and program of the Appalachian Education Satellite Project. The second section describes the resource coordinating centers and their seven missions: reading course development, career education course development for K-6 and 7-12, four-channel audio program…