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Migrant State Agency Program

The program assists State educational agencies in helping migrant children and youth meet challenging academic standards and complete high school by providing supplemental instruction and other support services that address students' mobility and special needs.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is on track to meet long-term performance measures, showing upward progress in the number of States meeting their annual reading and mathematics proficiency goals for 4th-grade migrant students and math proficiency goals for 8th-grade students.
  • After finding inaccuracies in the identification and counting of eligible migrant children, the Department of Education has implemented an examination process to evaluate the integrity of State child eligibility determinations in all States. Final Department action is contingent on the results from final State voluntary audits to be completed in 2006-07.
  • The Department plans to implement a centralized records system to ensure that education and health records for migrant students who move between school districts and States are transferred, and has established, but not yet implemented, an efficiency measure to gauge system success in providing timely and complete student records, such as course completion records of highly mobile migrant students.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Completing the national audit of State child eligibility determinations and implementing specific corrective actions to eliminate problems.
  • Implementing, and collecting performance information for, the new efficiency measure for the Migrant Student Information Exchange records system (MSIX).
  • Developing a strategy for using performance information from the Department of Education's K-12 education data repository to support higher performance.

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