Migrant Education State Grant Program

To assist States in ensuring that migratory children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging State content and performance standards that all children are expected to meet.

State educational agencies or consortia of State educational agencies.

Children, ages 0 through 21, of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishers, including children (i.e. persons age 21 or under) who are migratory-agricultural workers or migratory fishers or who are the spouses of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishers, who have moved across school district lines within the past 36 months and, after doing so, engaged in new temporary or seasonal employment or personal subsistence in agriculture or fishing.

2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. An SEA is eligible for funding if it submits either a consolidated State application that includes information the Department of Education requires, or a program application that contains descriptions of (1) how, in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and projects, the State and its local operating agencies will ensure that the unique educational needs of migratory children, including preschool migratory children and migratory children who have dropped out of school, are identified and addressed through (a) the full range of services that are available for migratory children from appropriate local, State, and Federal educational programs; (b) joint planning among local, State, and Federal educational programs serving migratory children, including language instruction educational programs under part A of title III; (c) the integration of services available under this part with services provided by those other programs; and (d) measurable program objectives and outcomes; (2) a description of how the State will use funds received under this part to promote interstate and intrastate coordination of services for migratory children, including how the State will provide for educational continuity through the timely transfer of pertinent school records, including information on health, when children move from one school to another, whether or not such move occurs during the regular school year, and (3) a description of the State’s priorities for the use of funds received under this part, and how such priorities relate to the State’s assessment of needs for services in the State consistent with the State application requirements in ESEA section 1304(b) and the consolidated State plan application template. The program description also must contain assurances that the MEP program statute requires. Contact the program office for more information.

The Department awards funds to any SEA whose application the Secretary has approved under Section 1304 of the ESEA (in the MEP program statute) or under section 8302 (consolidated State applications).The Department of Education notifies an approved State educational agency of its award through a Grant Award Notification (GAN).

The range of approval/disapproval time is approximately 90 to 120 days.