So we concluded. and I think properly so. that one of the areas of greatest educational deprivation was the Indian people. and this amendment undertakes to do something about it. Mr. Chairman. another segment of our society in which the percentage of educationally deprived children is at least as great as and perhaps even greater than that of the Indian children is the migrant children. Approximately 150.000 of these children follow their parents across the Nation from State to State. season to season. and are not being properly educated. In fact. they are averaging between 2 to 6 weeks of education in any one spot In this Nation. Over half the migrant children In our schools today are at least 2 years behind their peers when they reach grade 6. if they ever do. Also. Mr. Chairman. of all the migrants over 25 years of age. only onethird have completed a fourthgrade education. The median education of our migrant people Is only 6.5 years. as compared to the almost 12 years of the median education of the average American. This bill will provide approximately $40 million. which will be allocated to the State educational agenciesand I want to make that amply clearto the State educational agencies. which will make their plans for migrant education and will carry out the plans through their own State departments of education upon approval of the Commissioner of Education. Addressing myself to the last part of my remarks. I would like to make it clear that our committee. the subcommittee and the full committee. have made no major changes in Public Law 874.
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