Teachers will be able to use the technologies to help tailor curricula to the unique needs of migrant students and make it available when they move from one school district to another. Each grant recipient has formed partnerships among school districts that share migrant students.
Most alliances cross state boundaries.
Schools will collaborate with public television, software developers, telecommunication firms, the agriculture industry and others to leverage resources for the projects and strengthen collaborative efforts on behalf of the migrant population. Many projects will transform homes into true learning centers for the entire family, where a family member can quickly access educational materials related to coursework or find a broad range of information that will help the family during its transitions. These projects complement the president's Technology Literacy Challenge Initiative, which is designed to help all children become technologically literate by the dawn of the 21st century. The project will use WebTV as the primary means to deliver supplemental instruction to migrant students as they are served in different school districts and to assess their progress. Students will have their own individualized learning plan which they will be able to access via the internet.