Field Hearing on the Migrant Education Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Napa, CA, August 22, 1997, Volume 4 |
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Page 79 - ... standards that all children are expected to meet; (3) a description of how the State will use funds received under this part to promote interstate and intrastate coordination of services for migratory children, including how, consistent with procedures the Secretary may require, the State will provide for educational continuity through the timely transfer of pertinent school records, including information on health, when children move from one school to another, whether or not such move occurs...
Page 20 - ... there are just a few migrant students in the school or if the school is insensitive to the needs of migrant parents or sometimes, regretfully, they are insensitive to parents in general. A new concern is that school-wide projects may not effectively involve the migrant parent, and this may be partly because there is a lack of understanding on the part of the administrators or staff in the unique needs of migrant families. Most of the recommendations that came out of the forum we have developed...
Page 78 - Due to their family's work and mobile life style, migrant students are often separated from the mainstream of the community. If migrant students do not have access to technology, equal to all students, it will be virtually impossible for them to achieve high state standards. More than any other educational service, activity or intervention, technology has the potential of permitting migrant students to overcome obstacles in their educational process. Technology is an important tool in helping migrant...
Page 14 - Forum was the need for family literacy programs, parenting skills and carry childhood education. Adults lacking literacy skills find it difficult to assist their children to break the cycle of low literacy. The main purpose of family literacy programs is to increase parent literacy and parenting skills so that they in turn can...
Page 19 - ... in different formats, but there is a lack of interagency sharing of information needed to ease transition from program to program or between states. We recommend a minimum data set for health which contains three pieces of information: first, immunization; second, tuberculosis screening; and, third, a contact number of the child's last known health care provider.
Page 13 - ... families. There are tremendous difficulties in coordination among migrant education, migrant Head Start, and migrant health. Later witnesses will propose specific recommendations in regard to migrant Head Start and migrant health. This testimony will note the general problems.
Page 80 - It is our opinion that there will never be an effective means of interstate transfer of education and health records unless leadership is taken in this effort by the United States Department of Education. Therefore, we recommend that Congress require the Secretary to establish standards for the timely transfer of records that must be met whenever federal funds are used for this purpose.
Page 84 - Many of our parents have been presenters in many state and national conferences and have been active participants and leaders in national Forums such as the one sponsored by the Interstate Migrant Education Council, in January of 1997. In California...
Page 6 - January of 1997. They shared information and experiences and developed recommendations. At the National Forum, there were several themes that emerged that cut across the various topics. The themes were the Migrant Education Program through its 30- year history has developed unique services to meet the unique needs of migrant students. The well-being of migrant farm workers and their families is beneficial to employers, the agricultural community and economy, and the nation's consumers of agricultural...
Page 84 - This fact has ben the key to bringing participation of migrant parents in the basic educational system as well. Past and present Federal and State laws require active parent participation at different levels of the migrant education program and in other programs as well. This has allowed parents to acquire a wide range of knowledge to better advise in the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of programs, that provide services to children of the communities.