Printer-friendly versionA look at the facts
- Texas is the "sending state" for the largest number of migrants — 150,000 every year, many from the Rio Grande Valley, heading mostly to the Midwest. Florida sends some 80,000 people up the East Coast and into the Midwest.
- Migrant parental involvement became a part of government policy in 1965, when funds were first allocated for migrant farmworker education under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the predecessor to No Child Left Behind. Congress allocated the money directly to migrant families the following year, after learning that school districts were using the money for other purposes.
