Migrant Education Technology Grants
Six projects across the country will explore how to use technology to combat the problems of disruption, lack of resources and language difficulty that traditionally plague children in migrant worker families. These programs are funded by the Department of Migrant Education. I have not been able to locate websites for most of the projects, if you know where these sites are please email me with their locations. If you'd like more information check with the Department of Migrant Education.

Project Mecha
The Migrant Education Consortium for Higher Achievement (MECHA) is a collaboration between Barry University, Dade County Public Schools Migrant Education Program (DCPS MEP), public television, telecommunications and software publishing industry partners, and school districts serving migrant children and youth in five states along the migrant stream of the eastern coast of the United States.

The project is designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive model for 1) promoting greater continuity of instruction for migrant students as they are served in different school districts and 2) assisting migrant students to achieve high academic standards through innovative uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning.

Estrella Stars in Four States || Illinois Migrant Council
Some 150 mobile migrant youth, mostly middle and high school students and youth currently out of school, will be targeted each year by Project ESTRELLA Encourage Students Through Technology to Reach High Expectations in Learning, Lifeskills, and Achievement. 250 teachers, as well as families and cyber-counselors, will work in Illinois, Montana, New York and Texas to support these students, helping to increase the current graduation rate of 50 percent for this migrant farm worker youth population.

Project Synergy || Michigan Department of Education
This project uses technologies that have a track record of success in Michigan classrooms and the project’s sister districts enrolling high numbers of LEP and/or migrant students. The Synergy Consortium believes that no single " holy technological grail" can offset all of migrant students’ problems, so they have chosen tools they believe to be synergistic--these tools support and reinforce each other so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Oregon Department of Ed
In addition to services through the MEP website and on the Internet, Oregon will use the resources of Oregon Public Broadcasting, one of the grant partners. A binational agreement with the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores of Mexico is now in place, and this agreement makes it possible for students in Oregon to follow Telesecundaria materials which have been aligned for Oregon standards. Telesecundaria represents the core curriculum of many of Mexico’s rural area schools, where many of the Oregon students will receive their high school credentials. Oregon is second in the nation in numbers of families migrating directly between Mexico and the United States.

Ohio Valley Ed Cooperative
Approximately 85-90 percent of Kentucky’s migrant students move within the state. For the next five years, The Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (OVEC) will use technology to keep these students in school and learning. The project will gradually expand to cover all grades plus drop-outs, and will extend to neighboring states in the final two years.

SERVE
Students living in Lee and Collier Counties, Florida, who migrate north from spring to fall, will have "a lifeline as they travel," provided by a technology grant program operated by SERVE (South Eastern Regional Vision for Education). The Anchor School will be the place the students can call home, as they travel north in support of the agricultural industry.

Other Migrant Education Sites:

The East Coast Migrant Head Start Project
East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP) establishes, provides and promotes continuity of Head Start services to migrant children and their families along the East Coast of the United States.

Migrant Head Start Quality Improvement Center
The Migrant Head Start Quality Improvement Center and the Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center are projects of the Academy for Educational Development. We provide training and technical assistance to Migrant Head Start grantees in 35 states.

EIMC - A Distance Education Center
Over 6,000 migrant students have enrolled in courses since the UT Migrant Student Program began in 1986. The program won the 1996 Significant Achievement in Independent Study Award from the National University Continuing Education Association.