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The Office of Migrant Education (OME) has identified the need for special initiatives in three programmatic areas of the Migrant Education Program (MEP) to help attain the goal of assisting migrant children to achieve challenging academic standards and graduate from high school. One of these areas is the program function of targeting, which includes the following:
Identifying and recruiting eligible migrant children is a cornerstone of the MEP. Identification means determining the presence and location of migratory children within a State. Recruitment means describing the benefits of the MEP to the child and his or her family and obtaining the necessary information to document the child's eligibility and enroll the child in the program. Identification and recruitment of migrant children are critical because:
As each SEA is responsible for the identification and recruitment of all eligible migrant children in the State, it is important for SEAs to develop and implement policies and procedures that efficiently and effectively meet their responsibility to correctly identify and recruit all eligible migrant children residing in their State. Each SEA's MEP funding is based, in part, on its annual count of eligible migratory children.
ID&R Coordinators, migrant recruiters, and other ID&R experts have identified the following needs as being important to ensuring the proper and timely identification and recruitment of eligible migrant children:
In 2000, the Office of Migrant Education launched an identification and recruitment initiative. The initiative brings together State ID&R Coordinators, OME staff, and others with expertise in the identification and recruitment of migrant students to improve current knowledge on (1) administrative procedures for effective ID&R systems, and (2) high-quality training materials for recruitment personnel.
TOPThe primary objective of the identification and recruitment initiative is to help State Migrant Education Programs conduct timely and proper identification and recruitment of eligible migrant children.
TOPOME is working with SEA and operating agency personnel to support the continued improvement of migrant child identification and recruitment. Specifically, OME is working to:
Tara Ramsey, Tara.Ramsey@ed.gov, (202) 260-2063
TOPMigrant Education Resource Center (MERC) - The MERC provides State Migrant Education Programs with expert technical assistance and support of migrant child identification and recruitment (ID&R) activities; facilitates a peer-to-peer network to improve the knowledge and skills of migrant educators on MEP-specific requirements; and maintains a web-enabled library that will allow State and local migrant educators to electronically share MEP documents and products. The MERC's toll-free telephone number is (888) 300-2404.
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Last Modified: 12/22/2008
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