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Bill package makes technical updates to STEM grants, clarifies recovery‑school and Oregon School for the Deaf rules, aligns emergency procedures
Summary
House Bill 3,038 would make technical updates to STEM grant statutes, clarify special‑education responsibility for approved recovery schools (including charters), explicitly add 504‑plan students to Oregon School for the Deaf eligibility language and consolidate school emergency‑procedure statutes.
The Senate Education Committee considered House Bill 3,038, an omnibus measure with multiple technical and policy changes affecting STEM grants, recovery schools, the Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD), and school emergency procedures.
Zoe Larmer, government relations director for the Oregon Department of Education (ODE), told the committee the bill updates outdated STEM statutes to reflect how STEM hubs currently operate, clarifies that approved recovery schools that are also public charter schools are governed by recovery‑school statutes for special‑education responsibility (so ODE “holds FAPE for recovery schools”), clarifies eligibility for the Oregon School for the Deaf to explicitly include students on Section 504 plans, and consolidates disparate…
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