Do all agricultural education programs have to be twelve-month programs?
No. Tenn. Code Ann. ยง 49-5-416(b), as amended by public chapter 143 of 2005, states in full as follows: “All high school agricultural education programs that were twelve-month programs for the 1992-1993 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, shall be maintained as twelve-month programs by the local board of education, so long as a quality agricultural education program as determined by criteria established by the vocational-technical education division, agriculture education program, of the department of education is maintained.” Pursuant to the Attorney General Opinion issued on September 7, 2005, OAG #137, Subparagraph (b) only affects agricultural education programs that were twelve-month programs for the fiscal year 1992-93 or in any following fiscal year. If a school system has such a program, the program must continue to be a twelve month program, so long as the program is a “quality agricultural education program.” Subparagraph (b) does not state that an agricultural educat
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