Mission & Goal
To help migratory children and youth meet high academic challenges by overcoming the obstacles created by frequent moves, educational disruption, cultural and language differences, and health-related problems.
Ensure that all migrant students reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a HSED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
Program Description
Funds support high quality education programs for migratory children and help ensure that migratory children who move among the states are not penalized in any manner by disparities among states in curriculum, graduation requirements, or state academic content and student academic achievement standards. Funds also ensure that migratory children not only are provided with appropriate education services (including supportive services) that address their special needs but also that such children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet. Federal funds are allocated by formula to SEAs, based on each state’s per pupil expenditure for education and counts of eligible migratory children, age 3 through 21, residing within the state.
Types of Service
The States use program funds to identify eligible children and provide education and support services. These services include: academic instruction; remedial and compensatory instruction; bilingual and multicultural instruction; vocational instruction; career education services; special guidance; counseling and testing services; health services; and preschool services.
You might know someone who qualifies…
We have an easy-to-use online referral tool at: https://idrreferrals.net/
This is available to send the contact information of a person that might be eligible for the program or a parent who has children who are possibly eligible. It takes less than 2 minutes to enter their information at this secure site and then our closest staff member will contact the family and determine if they are eligible.
2023-24 MEP Staff
These videos were presented during the MEP Fall Conference:
Meet our MEP Staff. The directory is updated as needed to provide you the most current contact information. Please click the button to the left to access our MEP Staff Directory.
We have provided a couple of options to view the calendar. The three page calendar in PDF version can be accessed by clicking the button to the left or here is the Google link to our calendar.
Please let us know if you have feedback or suggestions to improve the MEP program. Please click the button to the left to access the form.