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Rep. Tillman pitches expansion of middle‑school CTE grants in HB 357
Summary
House Bill 357 would expand a small Perkins ‘rural reserve’ grant that currently distributes about $60,000 statewide, adding a one‑time allocation the sponsor described as an additional $100,000 and opening eligibility to all Montana districts to seed middle‑grade CTE programs.
Representative Eric Tillman introduced House Bill 357 to provide more state-directed grant funding for career and technical education (CTE) at the middle‑school level.
Tillman, the bill sponsor, told the House Education Committee the state’s current Perkins rural‑reserve program supplies about $60,000 per year and historically provided one‑time rural grants of $5,000 to very small schools. "Right now, Perkins funding in the state of Montana, that comes from the feds," Tillman said, and he asked the committee to add an additional $100,000 and open the grant to all districts to help…
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