The Public Policy Institute of California recently released an interesting report, Out-Of-School Immigrant Youths, that details how immigrant youth receive inadequate educational services. The report explores how the federal Migrant Education Program (MEP), a statute designed to help this group, often fails to achieve its objective. “Using MEP and census data, the authors find that many out-of-school youth work, left school while quite young, and have very poor spoken English skills.” The report suggests that “strategies in addition to traditional education models may be necessary” to effectively provide educational services to this population.