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.