What is the Migrant Program? (Español)
- The Migrant Coordinator is a District Employee located in the North Elementary.
- Families can qualify if they have lived here less than 3 years.
- The family must move here within a year of the qualifying worker.
- One or both parents are working or have worked in agriculture in a job that may be either seasonal or temporary.
- Qualifying work: Egg farm, Dairies, Mushroom Plant, Turkey Farm, Pig Farm, Harvesting crops (picking or planting), Preparing fields, Nursery/Greenhouse, etc
- To qualify a family into the migrant program the migrant coordinator must complete a COE(certificate of eligibility) with a parent/guardian through MIS2000.
- The family has to meet certain requirements to qualify.
- It takes a couple of days in order for the family to be accepted into the program.
- Once they are in the program they will be in it 3-4 years from the date they arrived in our district or until they move, not the day they entered the program. (QAD)qualifying arrival date.
- If the family returns a new COE can be completed and their time starts again.
- These COE’s are kept on file for 3 years at least.
- The program is designed to help children to become better in reading, writing and math, along with speaking English.
- Children who are in the program receive a chromebook and a kajeet hotspot if available.
- Children in the program automatically qualify for summer school enrollment.
- Children are created a MLN(migrant literacy net) account by the migrant coordinator. This helps support the students Literacy and Math in both English and Spanish.
- Children can be put into groups to be pulled together or helped individually.
- The migrant coordinator should have communication with the parents.
- The migrant coordinator must list …. into MIS2000.
- All basic school year and summer enrollments for each student from age 3+
- Courses, grades, and credits for students in the 9th-12th grade
- Any instructional services received (math, reading, counseling, support, referred, instructional)
- All state assessment scores (WIDA, LA, Math, etc.)
- The migrant coordinator sends all of the …. to the State Board.
- Teacher Surveys and Questionnaires
- Parent Surveys
- students standard based grading based on content skills in Math and Language Arts
- The migrant coordinator will hold family literacy nights.
- The migrant coordinator should have a local parent advisory council created with parents who are in the program.
- The migrant education program can be coordinated with other agencies.
