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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 13, 2017 – 1:00-2:00 pm - Webinar Option 1 for Interested LEAs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">October 23, 2017 – 10:00-11:00 am - Webinar Option 2 for Interested LEAs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">November 3, 2017 – 3:00 pm – Application Closes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">More specific information and LEA application can be found on the Oregon Department of Education’s website at
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/ode/students-and-family/SpecialEducation/RegPrograms_BestPractice/Pages/State-Personnel-Development-Grant-%28SPDG%29.aspx">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For additional questions please contact Jennifer Eklund-Smith, Coherent Strategies SPDG/SSIP Specialist at
<a href="mailto:Jennifer.eklund-smith@ode.state.or.us">Jennifer.eklund-smith@ode.state.or.us</a> or 503.947.5611
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<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Ruby Sandberg, Executive Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> Oregon achieves…together! to Assistant Superintendent Sarah Drinkwater<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> 503-947-5738
</span></i><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/ode"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">www.oregon.gov/ode</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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