TAG Funding Bill feedback needed!

​We would like to inform you that there will be a hearing for House Bill 2419 in the Oregon House Education Committee on Monday at 3:00 in Hearing Room F.
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2419/Introduced
This billl would fund district services to Talented and Gifted (TAG) students in Oregon.
The funding increases in steps:

• For each year in 2017-19, the bill allocates $250 per identified TAG student in districts with 75 or more TAG students and $300 per TAG student in districts with fewer than 75 identified TAG students.
• in 2019-21 the bill allocates $375 per TAG student each year
• in 2021-023 and thereafter the bill allocates $500 per TAG student per year.

Comments on this bill should be submitted by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 24th. at noon, if possible and may be sent to hed.exhibits@oregonlegislature.gov .  Please include the bill number in the subject line.
Questions can be referred to OATAG's government relations chair, Margaret DeLacy, mdelacy@oatag.org at 503-774-7017.
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