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Mainly [Sylvia Martinez] speaks in English about her rage over national and local calls to deport undocumented immigrants. "Where do they start looking for 'illegal aliens'? What do they look like?" she asks. "They look like me. They look like my child. Do I have to start carrying my birth certificate around with me? I'll be damned if I'm going to just stand there and not say something about that. People say that illegal immigrant kids are draining our schools. I say, wait a minute, I'm a U.S. citizen and I didn't speak English until I was in third grade," says Sylvia Martinez, the child of migrant farmworkers. "Don't assume that just because someone doesn't speak English that they are an illegal immigrant." The city government did not support the effort to attract an ICE office, and ...
Longoria's concern... Eva Longoria says she lent her support to "The Harvest," a documentary about child migrant laborers, not just because of her Latin American roots but also because she wants to know where her food comes from and take responsibility for it.
LOS ANGELES - Eva Longoria says she lent her support to "The Harvest," a documentary about child migrant laborers, not just because of her Latin American roots but also because she wants to know where her food comes from and take responsibility for it. In the United States, harvesting work tends to be done by migrants of Latin American origin, but Longoria's interest in the subject didn't spring from that, but from the children who are growing up in the fields, the "Desperate Housewives" star says.
LEWISTON - A documentary detailing the moving struggles of a 13- year-old daughter of migrant farm workers will be shown here at the end of March. The screening of "Escuela" is sponsored by the Maine Migrant Health Program in observance of National Farmworker Awareness Week. The movie will be shown Monday, March 26, at Bates College.
Dr. [Salinas] is a child of former migrant farm workers and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at The University of Findlay. He has served on special committees for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Migrant Education on policy issues and has authored and co-authored several journal articles on migrant and Latino related topics.
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a new system of records entitled ``Migrant Education Bypass Program Student Database (MEBPSD)'' (18-14-06). The Secretary has awarded a contract to the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit (CSIU) to identify, recruit, and serve migratory children in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and West Virginia (collectively, the ``target States''), three states that no longer choose to receive Migrant Education Program (MEP) funding to provide educational programs to migratory children. The MEBPSD consists of records that the contractor needs to collect on eligible migrant students in order to carry out migrant education activities that the target States no longer prov...
IN 2002, THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE hosted the debut of historian and curator Rickie Solinger's photography exhibition Beggars and Choosers. [...] the show's fifty-plus images of historically reviled maternal bodies have traveled and been exhibited in academic, artistic, and community venues all across the United States.
... virtue of their documented proximity to children and to motherhood, to the universalized idea of fe..., the fact that both shows feature a Migrant Mother photograph encourages us to consider the tw...
BACKGROUND ON NCLB AND HIGH-STAKES TESTING A. NCLB NCLB is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.3 President George W. Bush signed NCLB into law in January 2002 .4 NCLB applies to any school that receives Title I funds, which are federal funds provided to schools with a high percentage of students from low income backgrounds.5 Title I funds are intended to supplement state educational funding and spending.6 Under NCLB, the states design the curriculum and the assessment, and the federal government holds the states accountable for how students perform on the assessments.7 Under NCLB , states have to report test results publicly via an annual report card.8 Test results are disaggregated by state, district, and school, into subgroups by gender, race, ethnicity, ...
..., race, ethnicity, English proficiency, migrant status, special education, and low socioeconomic s...
Thousands of children in the US work at hazardous agricultural jobs and their injuries or deaths often fail to show up in Labor Dept statistics. Many of these migrant jobs are not reported. The lack of child care facilities is a hazard too. Educational opportunities are inferior so many children dropout.
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