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The 2001 Florida Statutes

Title XVI
Education
Chapter 228
Public Education: General Provisions
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Section 228.062, Florida Statutes 2001

228.062  Migrant education program.--The Commissioner of Education shall prescribe such rules as are necessary to provide for the participation of the state in the federal migratory child compensatory education program, which may be funded from federal or other lawful sources. The Department of Education is authorized to plan, fund, and administer educational programs for migrant children in the state, beginning for such children at age 3. Such programs shall be operated through grants to local school districts or through contracts with other public agencies or nonprofit corporations.

History.--s. 2, ch. 80-239; s. 128, ch. 81-259; s. 75, ch. 97-190.