while concentration in school is often linked to residential and housing policies it is sometimes reinforced by the structure of the education system policy options to integrate rather than segregate migrant students include effective management of school choice rethinking of ability grouping practices and ensuring high curricular standards in all schools additional resource inputs can be necessary to bring their schools up to parity and finance additional programmes to address the particular linguistic and other needs of immigrant students research indicates that funding for equity will be most effective at the earliest levels of education and that both universal programmes for low socioeconomic status ses students and targeted measures for immigrant students are necessary