The Daily Yonder How a Federal Program Is Filling an Education Gap for Rural Migrant Students During the Pandemic Many migrant workers and their families rely on the Migrant Education Program to help students access school work. The pandemic has made it even more challenging. This story was published in partnership with Southerl This story also appeared in Southerly Linda Traylor got custody of her six grandchildren so they could stay put. Stability and the fact that they liked the schools in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, was important. Their father, who worked on tobacco and horse farms in Kentucky, had been deported to Mexico in 2015 and their mother traveled wherever she could find work.