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99 CIS H 341127
TITLE: Helping
Migrant, Neglected, and Delinquent Children Succeed in School
CIS-NO:
99-H341-127
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 22, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+136 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-61
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-61. Hearing to examine Department of Education assistance programs for
migrant, neglected, and delinquent students, in connection with upcoming
reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA).
ESEA Title I, Part C migrant education program (MEP) is
administered by State education agencies using Federal grants; Part D neglected
and delinquent students programs are administered by State and local education
agencies using Federal grants.
Supplementary material (p. 35-136)
includes submitted statements and witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ aid programs
extension and revision, migrant, neglected, and delinquent student issues
DESCRIPTORS:
MIGRANT AND
SEASONAL WORKERS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; STUDENTS; FEDERAL AID TO
STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; EDUCATION
REGULATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-127 TESTIMONY NO: 1 July 22, 1999 p. 4-32,
39-122
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GARCIA, FRANCISCO (Director, Office of Migrant Education,
Department of Education)
GUZMAN, OSCAR (former MEP
participant; representing National Association for Migrant Education (NAME))
REIMANN, MARGARET (Student Support Specialist, Migrant
Child Development Project, Western Regional Office, Pennsylvania Migrant
Education Program)
PERRY, JOHN D. (Executive Director,
Interstate Migrant Education Council (IMEC))
NISWONGER,
DALE (Education Program Consultant, Department of Education, Kentucky Education,
Arts and Humanities Cabinet)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Support for MEP reauthorization, citing educational
disadvantages facing migrant children; recommendations to improve MEP
administration to better serve migrant students; description of MEP
implementation in Pennsylvania; overview of Kentucky efforts to improve
education of neglected and delinquent youth.
Perspectives
on reauthorization of ESEA provisions relating to migrant, neglected, and
delinquent students.
INSERTIONS:
a. NAME
(et al.), "Comprehensive Plan for the Education of America's Migrant Children"
Apr. 30, 1999 (p. 60-76).
b. IMEC, "Value of Migrant
Education: A Federal Program for the Migrant Students of the Nation" 1999 (p.
95-112).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and
secondary educ aid programs, extension and revision, migrant, neglected, and
delinquent student issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MIGRANT EDUCATION; PENNSYLVANIA;
KENTUCKY 
