The Texas Migrant Education Program (MEP) funds two special project grants to help districts address migrant student needs in accumulating course credits and the coordination of resources and services statewide and nationally. The Texas MEP is also part of two multi-state consortium grant awards from the U.S. Department of Education that address migrant student needs in mathematics and migrant out-of school youth needs. In addition, the Texas MEP receives a literacy grant from a non-profit organization to operate a literacy program.
Special Projects
Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program
The mission of the Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program is to help Texas migrant students graduate from high school by providing opportunities to earn credit at any time and any place. The program offers 46 distance learning courses that are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and help migrant students prepare for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).
Peggy Wimberley, Coordinator, E-Mail: peggywimberley@mail.utexas.edu
P.O. Box 7700, Austin, TX 78713, Phone: 1-800-444-1905, Fax: (512)232-5533, http://www.UTK16.ORG
Texas Migrant Interstate Program (TMIP)
The mission of the Texas Migrant Interstate Program (TMIP) is to help reduce the effects of educational disruption that Texas' mobile, migrant children often face as they move within or outside the state. The TMIP's certified bilingual counselors provide assistance to migrant students, their families, school counselors and other school staff in order to ensure critical information exchange, appropriate course placement and secondary credit accrual needed for on-time graduation from high school. The TMIP coordinates with receiving states so that students migrating from Texas can take the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) outside the state when needed for grade level promotion (grades 3, 5 and 8) or to meet graduation requirements (exit level).
Thomas Yañez,, Director, E-Mail: tyanez.tmip@sbcglobal.net
P.O. Box 1150, Pharr, TX 78577, Phone: 1-800-292-7006 / (956)702-6047, Fax: (956)702-6058 http://psja.tmip.schoolfusion.us
Migrant Consortium Incentive Grant Awards
Project SMART: Mathematics Achievement=Success (MAS)
A Multi-State Summer Migrant Program (Formerly Math Plus)
The MAS summer migrant program is funded through a Migrant Education Program Consortium Incentive Grant (CIG) awarded by the USDE Office of Migrant Education for summer implementation in 2009 and 2010. With Texas as lead state, the MAS program is developed collaboratively by the consortium's eight member states. The program is designed to increase migrant student achievement by providing a high quality K-12 curriculum for use in classroom and home-based settings, as well as instruction, assessment, innovative uses of technology, professional development and parent involvement.
Elizabeth Minjárez, Grant Contact, EMail: elizabeth.minjarez@tea.state.tx.us
Texas MEP, Division of NCLB Program Coordination, Texas Education Agency, 1707 N. Congress Ave., Austin TX 78208, Phone:(512)463-9696, Fax:(512)305-9447
Susan Altgelt, Project Coordinator, EMail: susan.altgelt@esc20.net
Region 20 ESC, 1314 Hines Ave., San Antonio, TX 78208, Phone: (210)370-5639, Fax: (210)370-5743 http://projectsmart.esc20.net
Opportunities for Success for Out-of-School Youth (OSY)
The OSY Migrant Education Program Consortium Incentive Grant was designed to help and encourage states, policy makers and educators to provide services to the growing population of migrant out-of-school youth who tend to have great educational needs.
The goal of the OSY project is to design and implement a system to identify, recruit, assess, develop and deliver services to migrant out-of-school youth, provide professional development to support these activities and integrate OSY services into State plans to elevate the quantity and quality of services to this large, underserved population.
Patricia Meyertholen, Project Coordinator, E-Mail: meyertholen@ncfh.org
National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., 1770 FM 967, Buda, TX 78610, Phone: (512) 312-5456, Fax: (512) 312-2600
Literacy Grant
Texas Migrant Reading is Fundamental (RIF) Program
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the oldest and largest nonprofit children's literacy foundation in the nation. The Texas MEP receives a federally-funded RIF grant to provide a RIF Books for Ownership service to Texas migrant children. The goals of RIF Books for Ownership programs are to:
- Provide new, free books and literacy resources to children and their families.
- Motivate children to read.
- Generate community support for literacy.
Each year, from April through June, the Texas MEP successfully distributes high quality, inexpensive books to thousands of migrant children throughout the state. To participate, school districts work with the regional education service center MEP staff to order books from the designated RIF book supplier and to hold RIF book distribution events where each eligible migrant child participates in a motivational activity and selects a book to keep. Each participating child attends two separate book distribution events.
The Texas Migrant RIF program is designed to be supplemental to any other RIF services already provided at many school districts throughout Texas.
For more information about the Texas Migrant RIF program, contact the Texas MEP at (512) 463-9374.
To learn more about the national RIF organization and its various programs visit http://www.rif.org
NCLB Program Coordination Home Page
Cory Green, Senior Director
Contact: nclb@tea.state.tx.us or (512) 463-9374
Last Updated: 09/14/2009