The National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational-Technical Education has become a significant national medium for exchange of vocational curriculum information and materials, the authors state in reviewing the network's organization and accomplishments. However, funding arrangements have created friction within the networks. (MF)

The Bilingual Mini-Head Start program which offers service to migrant children and their families over a 6,000 mile circuit using a totally paraprofessional teaching staff, consists of 6 components: instruction, staff training, parent and community involvement, materials development, relocating delivery system, and management. An interim…

The Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. The program has three permanent sites--two year-round sites in Washington which serve both mobile migrants and seasonal farm workers' children, and a home base site in Grulla, Texas which serves only mobile migrant children. Teachers from…

Initiated in 1971, this early education program for children of migrant farm workers uses the adult members of the child's extended family as paraprofessional teachers who have full responsibility for teaching the child. Professional teachers, employed to "back up" the parent teacher, help with training, curriculum planning, securing…

For the 1984-85 funding cycle the Interstate Migrant Secondary Services Program established and successfully met 10 objectives related to 3 major goals: (1) assist local and state education agencies (LEA's and SEA's) to improve migrant students' access to junior and senior high school services in the areas of instructional opportunities, credit…