Migrant Education Program (MEP)
The Migrant Education Program (MEP) is designed to help migrant students overcome the challenges of mobility, cultural and language barriers, social isolation, and other difficulties associated with migratory life, in order to succeed in school and to successfully transition to post-secondary education.
Federal law requires the state to identify and recruit every eligible migrant student residing in Texas. The Texas Education Agency assured the U.S. Department of Education that migrant students would be actively recruited year-round in every district in the state.
While all districts that receive migrant funds are required to do their own identification and recruitment, the education service centers are responsible for assisting all non-migrant-funded districts with the identification and recruitment of migrant children.
Services Offered
Identification and Recruitment
The Education Service Center Region 11 helps with identification and recruitment. We provide training for all front office staff, and other school personnel and provide technical assistance to schools participating in an approved Texas Migrant Program.
The Texas New Generation System (TXNGS)
The Education Service Center Region 11 will provide training for Texas New Generation System Specialists. TXNGS is a web-based interstate information network that communicates demographic, educational, and health data on migrant students to educators throughout Texas. The TXNGS system is designed to capture educational and health data on migrant students. The system allows educators to record the movement of migrant students through the educational process by producing on-line records of a student's educational progress and health profile. Educators can generate a student transfer document to facilitate academic placement as the student transfers to schools. NGS also allows educators to generate various student-level, management, and Office of Migrant Education performance reports.