Migrant Education Program (MEP) (Español)
The Migrant Education Program (MEP) exists to serve a population of students who could be at higher risk of dropping out because their education has been interrupted by a move. It is run by a Migrant Recruiter, a District Employee with an office located in the Delta North Elementary School. The Migrant Recruiter works closely with the English Language Learning (ELL) program coordinators in each school.
The goal of the Migrant Education Program is to ensure that all migrant students reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a GED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
The purpose of the MEP is to ensure that migrant children benefit from the same free public education provided to other children. To achieve this purpose, the MEP helps states address the special educational needs of migrant children, enabling them to succeed academically. More specifically, the purposes of the MEP are to:
- Support high-quality and comprehensive educational programs for migrant children to reduce disruptions and other problems that result from repeated moves.
- Ensure that migrant children who move among the states are not penalized in any manner by disparities among the states in curriculum, graduation, requirements, and state academic content and student achievement standards
- Ensure that migrant 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 receive full and proper opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet
- Design programs to help migrant children overcome educational disruption, cultural and language barriers, social isolation, various health-related problems, and other factors that inhibit their ability to do well in school, and to prepare them to make a successful transition to postsecondary education or employment, and
- Ensure that migrant children benefit from state and local systemic reforms
Migrant: any person who moves from one place to another seeking work or better living conditions.
To qualify for MEP, parents must be seeking work in agriculture or be working in agriculture. Examples that qualify are dairies, egg farms, alfalfa farms, and other crops. They have to have lived in the school district for less than 3 years.
