6:145 Instruction
(Acrobat File)
     
 

Migrant Students 

The Superintendent will develop and implement a program to address the needs of migrant children in the District in accordance with federal law. 

This program will:

  1. Identify migrant students and assess their educational and related health and social needs.

  2. Provide a full range of services to migrant students through appropriate local, State and federal educational programs, including applicable Title I programs, special education, gifted education, vocational education, language programs, counseling programs and elective classes.

  3. Provide migrant children with full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children are expected to meet.

  4. Provide advocacy, to the extent feasible:

    1. Advocacy and outreach programs to migrant children and their families, including helping such children and families gain access to other education, health, nutrition, and social services

    2. Professional development programs, including mentoring for District staff.

    3. Family literacy programs, 

  5. The integration of information technology and educational and related programs, and

  6. Provide programs, activities, and procedures for the engagement of parent/guardians and family members of migrant students in an understandable format and language. 

Migrant Education Program for Parent/Guardian and Family Member Engagement

Parent/guardian and family members of migrant students will be involved in and regularly consulted about the development, implementation, operation, and evaluation of the migrant program.

Parent/guardian and family members of migrant students will receive instruction regarding their role in improving the academic achievement of their children.

LEGAL REF.: 20 U.S.C. §6391 et seq., Education of Migratory Children.

20 U.S.C. §6318

 34 C.F.R. §200.81 et.deq.

CROSS REF.: 6:170 (Title I Programs)

Reviewed: February 27, 2006, March 9, 2015, January 23, 2017, August 16, 2021

Adopted: May 15, 2006

Revisions Adopted: March 23, 2015, February 6, 2017, September 20, 2021