1. Migrant Education Program Harvest of Hope Donna I.S.D.
Abel Muñoz
Migrant Education Program Director

2. Supplemental Picture

3. Migrant Student Definition
Is a child between 3-21 yrs. of age or whose
Parent, spouse, or guardian is a: Migratory Agricultural Worker, including a Migratory Dairy Worker, or Migratory Fisher who in the preceding 36 months
In order to obtain, or to accompany parent, spouse, or guardian in order to:
Obtain temporary or seasonal employment in agriculture or fishing has moved from one school district to another.

4. Characteristics of a Migrant Student
Mobility
Education Interrupted
Attendance
Make Up Work
Homework
Social Isolation
Credits-Behind
Overage
Language Barriers
Poverty
Health Issues
TAKS
Miss out on tutorials for State Assessment

5. Educational Problems Early withdrawal Late entry
Course content is different
They do not receive credit for incomplete courses
Credits from other states are not always accepted
Course requirements are different from school to school
State mandated exams
Lack of counseling services

6. DISD Migrant Weekly Report

7. Key Requirements as stated in Statue
Funds to address the unique needs of mobile migrant students and to provide services to permit them to participate effectively.
Funds are intended for supplemental services, thus cannot be used to pay for services normally covered by local program.
Migrant children are also eligible for services under Title I, Part A, as other children.
State and LEA responsibility is to ensure that only those children who are eligible for the MEP program are identified, recruited, counted and served.

8. State Program Purpose
To design and support programs that help migrant students overcome the challenges of:
mobility, cultural language barriers, social isolation and other difficulties in order to
Succeed in school and to transition to post secondary education or employment.

9. Migrant Education Program Title I, Part C 1301
Support comprehensive educational programs to help reduce disruption in education.
Ensure that students are not penalized in any manner.

10. Ensure students are provided with appropriate educational services (including support services) that address their special needs in a coordinated and efficient manner.
Ensure migratory children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet.

11. 5. Design programs to help migrant children overcome educational disruption, cultural barriers, social isolation, health-related problems, and other factors that inhibit the ability of such children to do well in school, and prepare such children to make a successful transition to post-secondary education or employment; and
6. Ensure that migrant children benefit from state and local systematic reforms.

12. Supplemental Services for Elementary Migrant Students
After/Before/Saturday school tutorials
Migrant Summer School through Math Project SMART MASTERS
Vision, Hearing/or Health Screening
Early Childhood Education
Study Buddy Hand Held Tutor/Kineo
Out-of-State TAKS testing through Texas Migrant Interstate Program
Library Books through the Migrant Reading is Fundamental (RIF) Program

13. Supplemental Services Middle School
Extended day
Tutorials
Reading instruction
Math instruction
Migrant summer school through Project Smart MASTERS
Provide other instructional services

14. Supplemental Services High School Students
Migrant Counselors assist with:
Course placement
Credit accrual
Graduation Plans
Financial Aid Workshop (for student & parent)
On going information on scholarship opportunities for post secondary
Extended day tutorials
(core areas)
Migrant Education Options Lab
(Math & Science)

15. Computer assisted instruction for credit accrual
University of Texas Distance Learning
Project SMART Math Plus Summer Program
Provide other summer programs
Homework Tools: Laptops, Study Buddy, Calculators, etc..

16. Who is the Priority for Services Student?
The migrant student whose:
Education has been interrupted during the school year AND
Who is failing or is most at risk of failing to meet the state’s academic content and academic achievement standards.
Districts are required in their SAS-A478 application process for migrant funds to target migrant education services to “Priority for Services” students.
Services are to be provided for the PFS students first, and then the non PFS migrant students.
Before the first day of school districts are to develop a PFS Action Plan for serving PFS students.

17. Late Entry/Early Withdrawal Procedures
If the student withdraws by the last week of the 5th six weeks, you may average the 4th & 5th six weeks and issue a 6th weeks grade* then calculate 2nd semester grade. Initial each and every grade written in.
19 TAC Chapter 74 Curriculum Requirements of Credits states, a course may be considered completed and credit may be awarded if the student has demonstrated proficiency in the subject matter regardless of the time the student has received instructions in the course of the grade level at which proficiency was attained. Therefore, when approved

18. Principal A commitment to Advocacy
Avail all Migrant Programs to Migrant Students
Get to know your Migrant Students
Welcome them to your campus
Involve Counselors in Migrant Regional Meetings
Allow for flexibility
Include Migrant Issues on Staff Development/In services (Cultural Awareness)
Enforce Extenuating Circumstances for Migrant Student Attendance policy carefully
Select Staff who will work with migrant students for tutorials
Maximize use of resources
Accept Migrant Students regardless of date
Implement Project SMART

19. Counselors Allow for flexibility in Credit Acceptance
Allot class slots for late entries
Know your migrant students and their migratory patterns
Call them in for approximate withdrawal dates
Inform teachers of student withdrawal in advance
Make individual and/or group plans for course completions
Monitor Students’ Progress
Have Self-Esteem Builders
Contact Parents
Establish Interstate Coordination
Announce for students to
visit with you for planning
completion of courses
Inform them of Interstate Connections
Utilize the Donna ISD Migrant Student Transfer Packet (Gold Envelope)
Inform Parents of School Calendar/Policies

20. Teachers Work closely with counselors Diagnose student’s needs
Be sensitive to the Migrant Lifestyle
Make Migrant Students Welcomed in your class
Introduce them to the rest of the class
Allow student plenty of time for make-up work
Work with them to complete course (s) before withdrawal
Be Flexible
Familiarize yourself with migrant services (tutorials, etc.)
Work closely with counselors
Diagnose student’s needs
Provide extra instruction
Make home visits
Prepare Study Packets
Have “Make-up” packets already available
Take advantage of your proximity with students
Work with partial grades (consolidate as much as possible without having student re-do work)

21. Compliance with Program Law, Rules and Regulations
MEP funds must be exclusively for identified migrant students.
Migrant students are all other students first.
Ensure that costs are not being covered by other fund sources? If YES-we are supplanting.
MEP expenditure must be reasonable and necessary.
Educational and support migrant services/activities/initiatives must be aligned to an identified need as per the Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA).
For elementary campuses MEP Funds are restricted to the migrant tutorial program.
100% MEP funded staff cannot perform limited non migrant related duties such as: lunch duty, bus duty, cross walk duty, phone duty, STARR administration duties to include monitoring.

22. Allowables and Non-Allowables
Item of Cost
Awards for Recognition or Incentives for Participation
Conferences and Meetings
Allowable - Non-Allowable Allowable: When reasonable in cost and when necessary to accomplish program objectives. Acceptable awards and incentives include certificates, plaques, ribbons, and small trophies nominal in cost, or inexpensive instructionally related items such as pens/pencils to be used in the classroom. Allowable:

23. Allowables and Non-Allowables (cont. 2)
Entertainment (including amusement, diversion, social activities, and related costs)
Equipment and Other Capital Expenditures
Field Trips
Food Costs
Gifts or Items That Appear to be Gifts
Unallowable Allowable: MEP related only Unallowable: Field trips for social, entertainment, or recreational purposes. Allowable: Nutritional snacks for students in extended day (i.e., after-school) programs.

24. Allowables and Non-Allowables (cont. 3)
Materials and Supplies
Promotional Items (such as T-shirts, caps, tote bags, key chains, imprinted pens, etc.)
Training and Education
Transportation Costs
Travel Costs (Employees)
Allowable Unallowable Allowable: MEP Related Allowable: for transportation cost to or from grant activities. (Tutorials) Allowable: Travel costs are allowable for employees traveling on official business incidental to the grant program.

25. Abel Munoz Migrant Education Program Director (956) Ext: