The Education Commission of the States Interstate Migrant Education Project, initiated in June 1976, evolved in response to a need for coordinated planning and implementation of migrant programs among states, ECS's preliminary review of the issue discovered a lack of data on migrant children identified, evaluated, and served by education programs. A seminar held in Phoenix in 1980 developed a number of specific suggestions for serving migrant children.
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