Migrant Education Overview
Goal of Migrant Education
The goal of Migrant Education is to help students meet California and local standards for student achievement through educational instruction and health services. As a result of frequent moves during the school year, most migrant students demonstrate educational needs in reading, math and health services. It is the purpose and goal of Region V to identify migrant students in order to make available and provide educational instruction and health services to help ensure that migrant students benefit from state and local systemic reforms that enrich and strengthen migrant students in the basic educational curriculum.
Migrant Education Funding
The Migrant Education Program is funded by the Office of Migrant Education of the U.S Department of Education under the Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act as amended in 1994: Improving America's School Act (IASA) P.L. 103-382. The California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children provides supplementary educational services to children of migrant agricultural workers, as well as those working in logging, fishing and other migratory industries in our nation, through Basic Formula Grant Programs. Region V is the Operating Region for Migrant Education in Kern County serving over 25,000 migrant students.