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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  

CHARLIE CRIST Bernardo A. Garcia, Chief

Commissioner Bureau of Equity, Safety

And School Support

MEMORANDUM

TO:

District Title I Migrant Coordinators

FROM:

Retha B. Nero, Educational Program Director

Title I/Migrant Programs

DATE:

August 21, 2002

SUBJECT: 2002-2003 Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Service Delivery Plan

Attached for your completion is the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Equity, Safety

and School Support, Migrant Education Program, Comprehensive Needs Assessment and

Service Delivery Plan. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires that a comprehensive

needs assessment be conducted on an annual basis at the state and local levels. The service

delivery plan will be determined by the summation of the information provided by local operating

agencies.

It is important that the instrument encapsulates responses for services that you provide to

render a true assessment of the needs that effectively impact student achievement/learning. If

the priority for services is other than those determined by the state of Florida, please provide

appropriate rationale/data to support selection of goals that are not identified as one of the five

state-identified goals.

Please return the completed form no later than 5:00 p.m., September 30, 2002, by fax

(850) 922-9648 or e-mail

Retha.Nero@FLDOE.ORG

.

Should you have questions or concerns, please contact me at (850) 487-3530. Your

cooperation is invaluable and greatly appreciated.

RBN/js

Attachments

cc: Bernardo A. Garcia

Rony Joseph

Angel Stanford

Regional Program Directors