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This summer, farmworkers’ kids skip classroom for fields
- 07-13-2011
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By Claudia Núñez/ New America Media
Bent over amongst the strawberry and grape harvests, dozens of children work on California farms. The Migrant Education Program (MEP), the division of the U.S. Department of Education that focuses on the children of migrant workers, estimates that U.S. schools lost 20,000 students this year to the fields. Hueneme High School in Oxnard, California, which serves a large farmworker population, has fewer than 70 students enrolled in summer school, significantly fewer than the 1,000 students registered in the area with MEP. “Since the first day of summer, almost all of them have gone to the fields to work and, regrettably, they must miss their classes,” said David Ramos, the MEP coordinator at Hueneme High School. (more...)
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