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Congress authorized the Migrant Education Program to help migrant students face the enormous challenges and obstacles they experience in obtaining continuity in their education and completing school. Research has revealed that migrant students are considered non-resident by schools, have difficulty in obtaining short spans of instruction from schools, experience cultural and language barriers, and often lack a sense of belonging and a connection to their school and community.
Migrant children often function two or more grade levels behind their peers. They are 20 percent less likely to continue their education past the eighth grade and have a 50 percent chance of graduating high school. Migrant children need special attention to compensate for the changes in their environment.
The Migrant Education Program (MEP) is authorized by Title I, Part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The MEP provides formula grants to the state education agencies (SEAs) to establish or improve programs of education for children of qualifying migrant workers. These grants assist states in improving educational opportunities for migrant children to help them succeed in the regular school program, attain grade-level proficiency, and meet the challenging content and student performance standards that all children are expected to master.
The Migrant Education Outreach Program (MEOP) was established as a mechanism to reach migrant families who live in rural and urban school districts and typically comprise a small percentage of these districts' enrollments.
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