Alamosa Public Library

The State of Colorado receives Migrant Education Program (MEP) funding for which federal law mandates that the state identify and recruit all migrant students residing in Colorado who are eligible to receive services provided by the MEP. Identification and recruitment are critical activities because, the children who are most in need of program services are often those who are the most difficult to find.

Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.

"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." -Entertainment Weekly She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home. She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and...