A program that helps farmworkers’ children is on Trump’s chopping block
Update: 2025-07-17
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Monterey County offers the children of agricultural workers a fun summer filled with innovative science projects, dance and ceramics, in addition to beefing up their math and English skills. It’s one of dozens of these programs statewide and even more across the nation.
But this could be the last summer the program is offered. President Donald Trump froze funds for the program and wants to eliminate it entirely.
Voices:
- Constantino Silva, Senior Director of Migrant Education, Monterey County
- Karla Caliz, Migrant education coordinator, Monterey County
- Keyla Robles, Teacher in summer migrant education program, Monterey County
- Jose Perez, Migrant education resource teacher, King City Union School District
- Enrique Secada, Visiting teacher from Mexico
- Omar, Daleysa, Jesus, Oliver and Evelyn, Migrant education students
Read more from EdSource: Migrant education helps farmworkers' children catch up; Trump wants to end it
Education Beat is a weekly podcast, hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
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