36 U.S.C. § 70902 — Purposes

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This law lists the FFA's purposes, such as supporting agricultural education and career preparation. It also covers inclusion, character building, cooperation with others, and providing supplies and services to members. The FFA may do anything else consistent with these purposes that its governing body decides is best.

The purposes of the FFA are: (1) To be a core part of teaching agricultural education, including lessons about agriculture, food, and natural resources. (2) To build up agricultural education across the United States, including in public schools, by supporting classroom and lab teaching along with hands-on, work-based learning. (3) To prepare students for careers in agriculture, food, and natural resources — by connecting them to further education after high school, and by combining classroom teaching, hands-on learning, and leadership development. (4) To support state associations, local chapters, and individual members without selecting, controlling, or supervising their activities. (5) To create educational materials, programs, services, and events to help state and local agricultural education agencies. (6) To seek and promote inclusion and diversity among its members, leaders, and staff, reflecting a belief in the value of all human beings. (7) To help create local chapters and state associations of chapters, and to support them as they run agricultural education programs approved by their state, territory, or possession. (8) To build character and develop confident, capable agricultural leaders. (9) To help people understand how important agriculture, food, and natural resources are, including their global and technological importance, and how agriculture supports our well-being. (10) To encourage students to thoughtfully choose and pursue careers in agriculture, food, and natural resources. (11) To provide official FFA supplies, programs, services, and equipment to state associations, local chapters, and members. (12) To work with others — including state career and technical education boards and officials — to accomplish these purposes. (13) To do other things, consistent with these purposes, that the governing body decides are in the FFA's best interests.

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The purposes of the FFA are—

(1)

to be an integral component of instruction in agricultural education, including instruction relating to agriculture, food, and natural resources;

(2)

to advance comprehensive agricultural education in the United States, including in public schools, by supporting contextual classroom and laboratory instruction and work-based experiential learning;

(3)

to prepare students for successful entry into productive careers in fields relating to agriculture, food, and natural resources, including by connecting students to relevant postsecondary educational pathways and focusing on the complete delivery of classroom and laboratory instruction, work-based experiential learning, and leadership development;

(4)

to be a resource and support organization that does not select, control, or supervise State association, local chapter, or individual member activities;

(5)

to develop educational materials, programs, services, and events as a service to State and local agricultural education agencies;

(6)

to seek and promote inclusion and diversity in its membership, leadership, and staff to reflect the belief of the FFA in the value of all human beings;

(7)

to create, foster, and assist subsidiary chapters) 1 and associations of those chapters in the States, territories, and possessions of the United States as such chapters and associations carry out agricultural education programs that are approved by States, territories, or possessions;

(8)

to build character,¹ and develop competent and assertive agricultural leadership;

(9)

to increase awareness of the global and technological importance of agriculture, food, and natural resources, and the way agriculture contributes to our well-being;

(10)

to promote the intelligent choice and establishment of a career in fields relating to agriculture, food, and natural resources;

(11)

to make available to State associations, local chapters, and members all official supplies, programs, services, and equipment of the FFA;

(12)

to cooperate with others, including State boards and officials for career and technical education, in accomplishing these purposes; and

(13)

to engage in other activities, consistent with these purposes, determined by the governing body to be for the best interests of the FFA.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1356; Pub. L. 116–7, § 3, Feb. 21, 2019, 133 Stat. 478.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1356
2019Amended · Pub. L. 116-7 · 133 Stat. 478

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 105-225 on 1998-08-12.

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