A Summary of State Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program Participation and Achievement Information for 1985-86. Volume 1: Participation

This is the first of two volumes of a report summarizing participation and achievement information from the 1985-86 school year of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program. This volume presents the participation information provided by state educational agencies (SEAs). Of the 366,353 migrant education program participants in the period 1985-86, 75% were Hispanic and 12% were White. Fifty-three percent of the participants were settled-out migratory youths (formerly migrant), 29% were interstate migratory youths, 18% were intrastate migrants. There were 323,601 participants in the regular term, and 112,350 during the summer term, representing increases over the previous year. The largest percentage of migrant students in both the regular term (56%) and the summer term (60%) were in grades 1-6. Attendance and guidance services were provided to the largest number of participants (44%) during the regular term, followed by reading (41%) and mathematics (28%). During the summer term, 58% of the participants were provided with reading instruction and 56% with math instruction. Transportation, nutrition services, and attendance and guidance counseling were received by more than half of the summer participants. There were 12,014 full-time equivalent staff funded by the migrant education program in the regular term and 10,753 during the summer term. Teachers outnumbered teacher aides during the summer, whereas the converse was true during the regular term. Total regular term staff experienced a 14% decline from the 1984-85 regular term, but the summer staff increased 12% over the previous summer term. The document contains about 45 tables and graphs. Appendices provide information about methodology and statistics broken down by state. (TES)