Program Information

State funds are used to:

Migrant Education Programs support high-quality and comprehensive educational programs for migratory children to address disruptions in schooling and other problems that result from
repeated moves

  • Ensure that migratory children are provided with appropriate educational services (including supportive services that address their special needs in a coordinated and efficient manner;
  • Ensure that migrant children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging state content standards and challenging State student performance standards that all children are expected to meet;
  • Design programs to help migratory children overcome academic, cultural, and language barriers, social isolation health-related problems, and other factors that hinder academic achievement, and
  • Prepare such children to make successful transition to postsecondary education or employment;
  • Ensure that migratory children benefit from State and local systemic reforms.