Other sections of the bill provide needed clarification of other critical matters. The bill spells out which sections of the General Education Provisions Act apply to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. and it sets out procedures for State certification of chapter II applications while safeguarding local discretion to use chapter II funds according to local needs and circumstances. Among the provisions the administration had earlier objected to is section (1)(B). addressed to the chapter I program for migrant children. The administration is currently engaged in a review of this programs regulations and has advanced some reasonable proposals that deserve consideration. We object. however. to the proposal to alter the eligibility requirements for the program by classifying only those children who interrupt their schooling by a move during the school year as "currently migratory." We find this restriction to be unfair and impractical. Characteristically. a migrant childs progression through school is especially difficult because of low social and economic status. unstable family situations. the severance of ties to friends. relatives. and classmates. the necessity of readjusting to new communities. new schools. new curricula and teachers. the difficulty of transferring records promptly from school to school. and. often. the childs imperfect grasp of English. Obviously. these factors do not depend on whether a childs family moves a week before classes start or a week after. Indeed many of them are inherent in the migrant environment generally and would persist even if the child were able to remain stationary for a year or two with a relative while the parents follow the seasonal migrant labor markets. Applying this proposed standard would be not only arbitrary but also administratively difficult. The dates when school years begin and end vary considerably across the Nation.