Speech #920086663

Of the eight schoolyear aides. four were Puerto Rican. two were Negro. and two were Anglo. In addition. two "reverse Peace Corps" volunteers from Costa Rica and Argentina were providing many educational and social services which were otherwise completely unavailable to Puerto Rican children and parents. In the 1969 summer migrant education project (pupil enrollment 70% Puerto Rican. 20% Negro. 10% Anglo). teachers had been 100% Anglo. However. the director reported utilizing a number of recruitment sources from outside the school system to try to build a more heterogeneous staff for the 1970 summer school. In all other summer projects visited (in the Northern states). all teachers were Anglo. However. one director and two supervisors were Mexican American. and a fairly substantial number of homeschool coordinators. classroom and communtty aides were minority group members. As indicated by local questionnaire response. only 28% of the 196869 regular school year programs and 46% of the 1969 summer programs in our sample employed any migrant adults in any capacity. Of the large numbers of aides observed in 1970 summer migrant education programs. few were recruited from the migrant stream. In the Illinois and New Jersey projects we observed. there were. to the best of our information. no current or former migrants employed as aides. In a New York summer school. two teenage aides were migrants (they expected to return to Florida and graduate from high school the following school year). A Washington State summer school employed two former migrants as aides. In one Wisconsin summer school. ten of the 21 teenage Neighborhood Youth Corps aides were migrants. in another Wisconsin community. one migrant mother was employed as the only aide in the summer school program.