Interstate Migrant Education Programs

• The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers'Struggle - Video
• BEST Migrant Education Resources across the US as selected by Frank Odasz - The Office of Migrant Education has commissioned the creation of this site.
• TheOffice of Migrant Education - has a site with lots of informationabout Migrant Education across the US
• Links for Seasonal and Migrant Farmworkers - TheUnited States Department of Labor's Employment and Training Admininstrationmaintains this page of resources
• National Center for Farmworker Health - American Farmworker's homepage - created and maintains this site
• AEL - Migrant Education Information page with links to other sites and links to ERIC materials
• The Anchor School Project - is an exciting educational initiative involving migrant families moving between Florida and the Carolinas.
• Interstate Migrant Education Council (IMEC) - The web site by the Interstate Migrant Education Council(IMEC) where you will find a list of all recent IMEC publications and IMEC's proposed changes in the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) to enhance services to migratory students.
• The Kentucky Migrant Technology Project - Large collection of course materials online, in both Spanish and English.
• The National PASS Center Web Site: - PASS stands for Portable Assisted Study Sequence and PASS courses can help students complete credits aftera course interrupting move or after leaving school altogether.

Migrant Education Programs Listed byState

• AlaskaMigrant Education Program
• Arizona - A program through Arizona State University, Conexiones, puts technologyin the hands of migrant students.
• Stateof California Migrant Education Program. - A site withresources, and a listing of all the programs in thestate with contact information and links to their web pages.
• San Diego, CA - Region IX Migrant Education Program - San Diego County, California
• Florida's University of South Florida - hosts an INSTITUTE FOR LIBRARYSERVICES TO MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS IN FLORIDA - be sure to checkout the pictorial exhibits.
• JeffersonCounty, Colorado, - Migrant Education Program, offerings presented in English and in Spanish
• Georgia - Migrant Education - overview, site contacts and summer program dates, student information access coming soon, links to other sites
• Georgia - TwoRivers Migrant Education Agency, Ellaville, Georgia
• Louisiana - has a WWW page that lists an 800 number to access the Migrant Education Program
• Kentucky - Migrant Education Program
• Minnesota - Migrant Education Resource Center - Fantastic Resources - Very Well Organized
• The State of Nebraska - has a web page with lots of migrant education information
• Oneonta, New York - Migrant Education Outreach Programs and Support Services
• New York, Geneseo - The BOCESGeneseo Migrant Education Project sponsors programs and scholarships.
• Cornell - Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care Program (CFLMHCP) officially started in the summer of 1996 with a vision to offer minority undergraduate students at Cornell University the opportunity to receive "hands on" clinical, research and a didactic experience with migrant farmworkers.
• New Paltz, NY - State University of New York's New Paltz Campus offers a Migrant/Special Education Training Program leading to a MS degreee.
• NewYork - SUNY New Paltz has created a page that shares the situationof the Garcia family as they move between New York and Floridato work the crops, in their own words, with wonderful photos.
• Pennsylvania - Migrant Education - overview, definitions, site contact peopleand phone numbers
• Pennsylvania, University - COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM (CAMP) - offers academic, personal, and financial support forfirst-year students from migrant and seasonal agricultural worker backgrounds
• Texas - Migrant Education Program
• Texas - Education Service Center, Region One
• University of Texas - EIMC: A Distance Education Center that offers specialprograms for migrant students. EIMC has won awards for their programs.Look under the heading: High School Credit to find the program for migrant students.
• Mt. Vernon - Migrant Curriculum Project
• Washington - State University High School Equivalency Program
• East Coast Migrant Education
• NovelaHealth Education, University of Washington - A non-profit agency pioneeringthe development of a line of fotonovelas, videos and radio dramasin Spanish and English that address a number of topics importantto migrant farmworkers including Pesticide Safety, Prenatal Care,HIV/AIDS, and many more topics.

Other Organizations with Resources Useful to Migrant Educators

• Center for Applied Linguistics- Just as the name says.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools - Migrant Education (ERIC PRESS)
• The National Center for Bilingual Education - offers state by state information about stateeducation departments, teacher certification, and laws dealing with bilingual education.
• VOICES FROM THE FIELD: INTERVIEWS WITH STUDENTS FROM MIGRANT FARMWORKER FAMILIES - published in The Journal of Educational Issues of LanguageMinority Students, v14 p. 333-348, Winter 1994. and written by Yolanda G. Martinez, John Scott, Jr., Ann Cranston-Gingras, John S. Platt is available at the NCBE - National Center for Bilingual Education website.

Electronic Mailing Lists and News Sources

• Migrant Educators List Server - Subscribe and lend an ear to the discussion and maybe a hand to overcoming some of the challenges migrant educators face daily.
• Rural Migration News - Covers Issues of Migration and Immigration both in the USA and Abroad