Office of Migrant Education

The Office of Migrant Education works to improve teaching and learning for migratory children. Programs and projects administered by OME are designed to enable children whose families migrate to find work in agricultural, fishing, and timber industries to meet the same challenging academic content and student performance standards that are expected of all children. The migrant education program is based on the premise that migrant children, although affected by poverty and the migrant lifestyle can and should have the opportunity to realize their full academic potential.

Migrant Education Technology and Curriculum Resources

A great resource! A must see if you are looking for information pertaining to Migrant Education.

Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Information Exchange

Through this forum, we hope to provide opportunities for you to improve your services to the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker population by putting you in touch with information and people who have the same goal. We hope this page on the World Wide Web will assist your efforts in serving farmworkers.

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act is the major Federal law to protect migrant and seasonal farmworkers in matters of pay and working and work-related conditions, to require farm labor contractors to register with the U.S. Department of Labor, and to assure necessary protections for farmworkers, agricultural associations, and agricultural employers.

Migrant Workers' Children

Migrant life through the eyes of the child. Includes three students real life accounts of being a child of a migrant worker. There is also an interview with a students father and a survey.

Migrant Clinicians' Network

We at MCN proclaim that we will serve all people in need, providing comprehensive health care to farm workers and their families and our communities regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality, immigration status or sexual orientation.

United Farm Workers

Great resource for everything from how the United Farm Workers was formed to the Strawberry Campaign to the location of Regional offices..

The Fight in the Fields

Paradigm Productions, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and PBS present a portrait of the charismatic leader of the United Farmworkers Union and the history and impact of the UFW.

Pesticide Action Network

For 15 years, the Pesticide Action Network has campaigned to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound alternatives. As one of five Regional Centers worldwide, PAN North America links individuals, researchers, farmers, opinion leaders, businesses and public interest organizations in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with over 400 consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups in more than 60 countries.

Cesar Chavez Resources

Migrant Student Program, University of Texas at Austin

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 Associaton.

Articles

Washington, Indiana

The New York Times on August 19, 1997 described the UFW-Teamster effort to organize 40,000 Washington apple pickers and 15,000 warehouse workers as perhaps "the largest unionizing effort under way in the nation." According to the article, if the Teamsters succeed in Washington, it could help them organize Hispanic workers elsewhere.

In the Strawberry Fields

An article from the Atlantic Monthly
". . .The rise in the number of migrant workers in California, along with the growth in the proportion who are illegal immigrants, reflects a national trend that has passed largely unnoticed. During the 1960s it was commonly believed that within a decade there would be no more migrant farm workers in the United States."

In the District, Definition of "Migrant" Is Flexible

Article from the Washington Post
". . . Although the Migrant Education Program's regulations require that a participating child's guardian be "a migratory agricultural worker, including a migratory dairy worker or a migratory fisher," few of the parents of the children in the D.C. program fit that description."

Union says pesticide use violates law environmentalist join battle against growers

Article from the San Francisco Chronicle--March 27, 1997
" The United Farm Workers Union and a coalition of environmental groups yesterday accused California's strawberry growers of violating federal and state regulations by exposing farmworkers to the cancer-causing fungicide captan. In the midst of a labor dispute, the groups announced in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., that they will petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reinstate a four-day period farmworkers must stay out of fields after captan is applied."

Family Lives and Parental Involvement in Migrant Students' Education, 1991

Migrant family lives revolve around working and moving on. Families move from one job to another to better their financial situation. This Digest describes the lives of migrant families, migrant students' education, and migrant parents' involvement in their children's education. The discussion should be of particular interest to teachers and administrators who work with migrant students.

The Summer Institute for At-Risk Migrant Students

The Summer Institute for At-Risk Migrant Students, a residential program sponsored by the Florida Department of Education, provides sikx weeks of intensive coursework and tutoring for 330 to 350 students. The institute, which evolved from a 1985 pilot project, is held at three Florida universities and targets middle and high school students as well as dropouts.