Migrant Farmworker Children's Education Project: Local Focus, Statewide Impact
Statement of the Case. After working with farmworker families in migrant labor camps in California for the past eleven years, Human Agenda and the Center for Farmworker Families seek to change a state regulation to allow migrant farmworker children in Santa Clara County and California to stay at one school year-round, and succeed.
Under existing state regulations migrant families in 24 federally subsidized California migrant laborcamps are forced to move at least 50 miles away when the growing season is over, forcing the disruption of their children’s education. These children are required to attend a different school from November to May, the heart of the school year. The result is the dramatic undermining of the main reason the migrant laborers came to the United States in the first place: to improve the lives of their children through quality education.
We need your donations to jump-start our campaign.
We will introduce the bill this February, conduct research and garner the support of other organizations from March till May, and sign the bill into law by Governor Brown in September. To carry this out, we expect to need upwards of $50,000. Your donations on Indiegogo will kick-start our fundraising!
The Impact
This bill will directly impact children's ability to graduate High-School, and help end the cycle of poverty.
Currently only 10% of migrant farmworker children graduate from high school; compared to 50% among farmworker children that do not migrate. The impact this regulation would have would directly contribute to a child's ability to graduate!
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