704 KAR 3:292 - Education of migratory children
RELATES TO: KRS 156.010, 156.035, 156.070, 20 U.S.C. 6391-6399
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: Section 1306 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act requires migratory education programs receiving funding under Title I, Part C to ensure the unique educational needs of migratory children are identified and addressed. This administrative regulation establishes, in accordance with Kentucky's consolidated State plan under ESEA, how the Kentucky Department of Education (department) and its local operating agencies comply with ESEA Section 1306.
Section
1. Definitions.
(1)
"Comprehensive needs assessment" means a systematic set of procedures that are
used to determine needs, examine their nature and causes, and set priorities
for future action.
(2) "Migrant
staff" means any individual that is fully or partially paid using migrant
funds.
(3) "Migratory child" or
"migratory student" is defined in
20
U.S.C. 6399(3).
(4) "Out-of-school youth" means an individual
who:
(a) Has not attained the age of
twenty-one (21) years old;
(b) Has
not completed high school or the equivalent thereof; and
(c) Is not currently enrolled in an
elementary or secondary school.
(5) "Qualifying move" is defined in
20
U.S.C. 6399(5).
(6) "Service delivery plan" means a set of
principles, standards, polices, and constraints to be used to guide the
designs, development, deployment, operation, and retirement of
services.
Section 2.
Program Development and Implementation.
(1)
The department shall implement services to migratory children in accordance
with Kentucky's consolidated State plan under ESEA using a service delivery
plan responsive to a comprehensive needs assessment.
(2) In the planning and operation of
migratory education programs not less than one (1) school year in duration, the
department and its local operating agencies shall consult with parents of
migratory children and shall ensure such programs:
(a) Comply with the parental involvement
requirements in
20 U.S.C.
6318, unless doing so would be impractical;
and
(b) Are understandable, in both
format and language, to parents.
(3) The department shall work closely with
programs at the state, regional, and local levels to identify and meet the
needs of all migratory children, including preschool migratory students and
migratory children that have dropped out of school. Pursuant to
20 U.S.C.
6394(d), priority shall be
given to migratory children who have made a qualifying move within the previous
one (1) year period and who are failing, or most at risk of failing, or have
dropped out of school.
(4) The
department shall identify and recruit migratory children and may do so using:
(a) Statewide recruitment and
training;
(b) Regionally-based
recruitment and training; or
(c)
Locally-based recruitment and training.
(5) After a child is identified as migratory,
the child shall be enrolled in all applicable programs and provided access to
other resources that address the child's specific educational needs. The
department may directly provide services to the child if the child's needs are
not being met by other available programs and resources.
(6) Migrant staff shall attend annual
training as approved by the department.
Section 3. Program Evaluation.
(1) The department and its local operating
agencies shall establish objectives and evaluate outcomes for migratory
education programs in the following areas:
(a)
Reading and writing;
(b)
Math;
(c) High school dropout and
prevention;
(d) School readiness;
and
(e) Out-of-school
youth.
(2) Information
to be used by the department and its local operating agencies in evaluating
migratory education program outcomes may include:
(a) Data on student eligibility and
enrollment as well as provided services;
(b) Assessment data which may include the
record of state performance targets and outcomes for statewide assessments,
kindergarten readiness screener results, end of course results, graduation
rates, or local assessment results;
(c) Information on attendance, grades, and
teachers of records;
(d) Parent
surveys;
(e) Data from
regionally-based recruitment and training programs; or
(f) Annual program monitoring
results.
Section
4. Coordination of Services.
(1)
Pursuant to
20 U.S.C.
6394(c)(1)(B), the
department and its local operating agencies shall jointly plan migratory
education programs with similar programs within the state and in other states
as well as with other federal programs as appropriate.
(2) Pursuant to
20 U.S.C.
6394(b)(3), the department
and its local operating agencies shall facilitate educational continuity
through the timely transfer of student records when children move from one
school to another.
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