Office of Education. Moreover. the program is the victim of poor planning and implementation. This results in unspent funds and. of course. no benefits for migrant children. For fiscal years 1967. 1968. and 1969. $12.1 million was returned unspent by the States and another $4.4 million was unallocated. Over these 3 fiscal years. then. $1.7 million of appropriated funds went unused. Think of the number of children who might have been reached with these funds. One of the problems facing this program is the impossibility of estimating how many children are being served. At the time of NCEMCs study. neither unduplicated enrollment figures nor average daily attendance records for migrant children were available. NCEMC did turn up evidence. however. that many eligible students were not being reached by the program. The study also criticized the fragmented. hitormiss approach adopted by most States.