The rationale for establishing a migrant student program and a description of innovative programs are contained in this report of the statewide migrant project in New Mexico for fiscal year 1968. The program, representing the first major attempt at providing compensatory education services for New Mexico's migrant students, was initiated in the…

PURPOSES WERE TO CLARIFY THE PROBLEMS OF MIGRANTS, TO STUDY THEIR NEEDS, AND TO PROVIDE PROGRAMS TO ASSIST THEM IN ACHIEVING MORE ADEQUATE CITIZENSHIP. IN ADDITION TO CONFERENCES BETWEEN STATE DEPARTMENT AND MIGRANT SCHOOL PEOPLE, A 1-DAY CONFERENCE FOR SUPERVISORS OF MIGRANT PROGRAMS WAS HELD, IN WHICH NEW RECORD FORMS AND NEW STATE AID FORMULAS…

For the migrant child, mobility disrupts the continuity and sequencing of reading skills instruction and makes the maintenance of adequate progress records very difficult. A study, covering the years from 1965 to 1979 and tracing the development of selected approaches to providing continuity in reading progress, begins with a description of the…

In 1982, Utah's migrant education program provided educational and support services to 559 K-12 migrant students in 10 six-to-eight-week summer migrant school projects. Instructional programs included reading, math, language arts, ESL (English as a Second Language), cultural awareness, physical education/recreation, career awareness, vocational…

The booklet, a report on state programs for education of migrant children under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is divided into 7 chapters: "The Horror and the Hope,""Scenes Behind the Tarpaper,""Who They Are: The Parents,""Who They Are: The Children,""The Schools: The Challenge,""The Schools: Accepting the Challenge," and…

The living and working conditions of migrant farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia have been described as deplorable and possibly the worst in the nation. At the same time, growers in this region have complained of duplication, even triplication, of federal and state regulations designed to improve living and working conditions of these…

Children of migrant parents have serious educational deficiencies as a result of the lack of opportunity to attend and complete school. One of the major problems is the students' difficulty in accumulating sufficient credits for promotion and graduation. A survey of state departments of education and of the education committees of state…

Updating the findings reported in Colorado Legislative Publication No. 72, "Migratory Labor in Colorado," published in December of 1962, this 1970 staff report describes existing economic conditions of both growers and seasonal farm workers, governmental and private services available to the migrants, and some of the major migrant issues…

The final report of an extensive national study of migrant students' educational needs, this document reviews the literature, describes specific migrant education programs, and summarizes the findings of two surveys--a preliminary survey conducted in California, Texas, and Florida and a nationwide survey. Data from the national survey of…

Because of the increased interest in and current publicity given to the problems of agricultural migrant workers and their families, there has been a growing concern in the Nation regarding the lack of educational opportunities offered to migrant children. Since the programs for the education of children of migrant workers vary from State to…