Mr. MuRow. Everyone who knows anything about this situation agrees that the best hope for the future of the migrants lies in the education of their children. But for the children of migrants. education is not easy to come by. There are 600.000 of them. Most State child labor laws ignore farm childrenand so far as the children of migrants are concerned. almost without exception they leave school at the age of 16 forever. The U.S. Office of Education reports that the migratory workers have the highest rate of illiteracy in the country. Approximately. 1 out of every 500 children whose parents are still migrant laborers. finishes grade school. Approximately. 1 out of every 5.000 ever finishes high school. And there is no case upon the record of the child of a migrant laborer ever receiving a college diploma. Only six States have summer schools for migrants. The New Jersey School Center is at Cranbury.
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