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Membership - Nationally |
National FFA currently has 500,823 members. |
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Membership - Texas |
We have an estimated 62,000 Texas members this year. |
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Membership - WHS |
We currently have 41 members. |
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Education |
More than 11,000 teachers deliver an innovative, cutting-edge and integrated curriculum to students
92% offer agriscience; 71% offer advanced agriscience and biotechnology; 59% offer agricultural mechanics; 49% offer horticulture; 43% offer animal science; and, 24% offer environment-related In 2001, 59% of qualified agricultural education graduates pursued teaching as a career; over 35 agriculture programs closed due to lack of a qualified teacher and 365 agriculture teachers teach in more than one school 23% of teachers have five or fewer years of teaching experience
The shortage of qualified agriculture teachers is the greatest challenge facing FFA and agricultural education
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