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Flue outlet may be specified for either vertical or horizontal con nection. course was only one of four such programs curtailed. However, according to standards established by the vocational department of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 185 working days is not ample time for the vo ag teacher to provide a quality education for a program such as is run at Manheim Central. That program consists of production ag, ag mechanics, and adult education classes. Daring a five hour hearing Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 23, 1977 held on July 19 in the high school auditorium, James Fink, senior program specialist in agriculture education for the Penn sylvania Department of Education, testified that for Manheim Central’s program, 230 days is the standard and 220 days the minimum amount one vocational agriculture teacher is required to be on the job. He also affirmed that if the school district did not comply with the specifications set down, he would not approve a vocational agriculture program for the school district. The ramifications of such a move would have been widespread. For the vo-ag students, it would have signaled die end of FFA and the beginning of an academic agriculture class without the ‘hands on’ program it now has. The move would have also af fected the Young Farmer group at the school. These two groups depend heavily on state vocational reim bursement monies to operate, and without an approved program, those reimbursements would end. For the all day, or in-school ag student, the reim bursements comes to $35 per student plus 80 per cent of their traveling expenses. This amount is added onto state education money which subsidizes the school district at the rate of 22 students per teaching unit, or reimburses the school district every time a teacher has 22 students on his work load. 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With this point clarified, when the school board met in regular .session on July 21. they voted to award Erway a supplemental contract as supervisor of the Summer agriculture program. This contract will run from July 25 to August 26, bringing the program to 220 days this year, which will assure reimbursement as well as the continuance of the vocational agriculture course for the year. In a recommendation passed by the board mem bers, it was stated that “the board intends to continue a viable vocational agriculture program including Summer programs, and if possible, an FFA chapter, as long as sufficient enrollment and demand continue. Therefore, the board urges that they work with the Pennsylvania Department of Education to continue the program at a reduced cost to the taxpayer in the district, if possible.” According to Dr. Richard Hoffman, president of the school board, the district will now seek viable alternatives to keeping the vocational program with less than 240 days on the vo ag teachers’ contracts. 13
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