However, in the process of moving, the children's schooling suffers the consequences of interruption. This presents difficult challenges for students to benefit and have full access to the base curriculum, school services and maintenance of successful continuity in education. Secondary students experience not only interruption in instruction, school services and extra-curricular activities, but also in earning enough credits toward high school graduation. The circumstances of the migrant students and their families is a local and national concern, as students move to new schools, new teachers, different curriculum and textbooks and ever-changing social settings. That mobility contributes to the interruption of the migrant child's education and this creates needs that migrant education attempts to meet.
Most migrant families are U.S. citizens and have been so for generations.
The Migrant Education Program is funded by the Office of Migrant Education of the U.S. Department of Education. The California plan for the education of migrant children provides supplementary educational services to children of migrant agricultural workers, as well as those working in logging, fishing and other migratory industries in our nation, through Basic State Formula Grant Programs.