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 IMEC Facts
| |  | IMEC was established in 1983.
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|  | The mission of IMEC is to advocate policies that ensure the highest quality education and other needed services for the nation's migrant children.
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|  | Funding for IMEC comes from member states’ Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Part C, The Education of Migratory Children funds to promote interstate coordination of services for migrant children.
IMEC may also accept grants and donations.
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|  | IMEC is a 501-C not-for-profit corporation.
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|  | IMEC members are prominent individuals who volunteer their time and expertise to enhance educational opportunities for migrant students who are without a natural advocacy group. They examine policy issues concerning coordination between public and private agencies, including all levels of government. IMEC members have included chief state school officers, state legislators, state board of education members, state education agency personnel, local and district representatives and state directors of migrant education, a parent, and an employer of migrant families.
Each state determines its own representatives. We recommend that one representative be directly involved in the administration of the migrant education program and the other representatives be more general policy persons.
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|  | Every aspect of IMEC’s governance and activities are determined by the membership. The bylaws are approved by the membership, which include the fee structure. The membership also approves the annual budget, the leadership, the strategic plan and all meeting agendas and specific activities.
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|  | IMEC operates by consensus. A process has been designed that virtually assures unanimous support for all of IMEC’s goals, activities and recommendations. This means that when IMEC presents recommendations, it can be emphasized that the recommendations are supported by all the member states.
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|  | IMEC representatives meet three times each year.
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|  | To fulfill its mission, IMEC representatives identify critical challenges for the education of migrant students, gather information relating to the challenges and develop recommendations to mitigate the challenges.
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|  | IMEC’s activities usually involve two areas: federal governance of the program and improving migrant students’ academic achievement.
In the area of federal governance, activities have related to legislation, regulations, non-regulatory guidance.
In academic areas, IMEC has sponsored five forums in recent years. For each forum the best experts available were brought together to focus on issues relating to migrant students. IMEC representatives used the information to develop recommendations that were included in widely disseminated reports.
The five forums were:
- Seminar on Family Literacy for Migrant Families, 2000
- Seminar on Technology for Migrant Students, 2001
- Seminar on Migrant Out-of-School Youth, 2002
- Seminar on Migrant Parent and Family Involvement, 2003
- Migrant Students and the High School Redesign Movement, 2007
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|  | IMEC maintains offices with its fiscal agent, the Council of Chief State School Officers, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC. Telephone 202-336-7078. Web site: www.migedimec.org
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|  | IMEC’s fiscal agent is the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).
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|  | There are two staff members: Francisco Garcia is executive director; Nancy Wiehe is senior project associate for administration and membership services.
Staff may be reached at (202) 336-7078 or email Nancyw@ccsso.org.
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|  | The fee schedule is approved by the member states. It has a general relationship to states’ federal grants for migrant education. The fee covers actual expenses of travel, food and lodging for representatives to attend meetings.
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| Title I Migrant Education Grant |
General Representatives |
SEA Representatives |
($) |
| 0-1,198,653 |
1 |
0 |
7,333 |
| 1,198,653-2,511,054 |
1 |
1 |
14,666 |
| 2,511,054-8,788,689 |
2 |
1 |
22,000 |
| 8,788,689-16,321,851 |
2 |
1 |
27,502 |
| 16,321,851 and above |
2 |
2 |
38,500 | |
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