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TN Code § 49-16-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 1 - Virtual Education Programs|§ 49-16-101. Purpose of Chapter

 The purpose of this chapter is to provide school districts and students in all grades with a broader range of educational opportunities through effective use of technology.
TN Code § 49-16-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 1 - Virtual Education Programs|§ 49-16-102. Promulgation of Rules and Regulations

  The state board of education is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. The rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.   The state board of education shall develop policies and guidelines for the operation of virtual education programs, including those operated by the department of education.
TN Code § 49-16-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 1 - Virtual Education Programs|§ 49-16-103. Use of Funds

  LEAs are authorized to use basic education program (BEP) funds in the implementation and operation of virtual education programs.   The department of education and local education agencies may apply for and receive grants and accept donations to help fund virtual education programs, particularly in the startup phase.
TN Code § 49-16-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 1 - Virtual Education Programs|§ 49-16-104. Annual Report

  The department of education shall annually submit to the governor, the general assembly, the state board of education, and the basic education program (BEP) review committee a complete and detailed reporting of:  The operation of virtual education programs;   The number of students enrolling in these programs and the success of the students, including an analysis of the academic accountability of the school's students. The data shall be provided in total numbers and disaggregated and compared to corresponding data for students in traditional school settings;   Efforts made to improve the programs and the delivery of classes, including new technologies examined or implemented;   Funding received and the adequacy of the funding; and   Such other information as the department finds necessary to account for the operation of virtual education programs.     The report shall be submitted by July 1 of each year.
TN Code § 49-16-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 1 - Virtual Education Programs|§ 49-16-105. Construction of Chapter

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require local education agencies to offer or participate in a virtual education program. Participation in a virtual education program by a student shall be at the discretion of the LEA in which the student is enrolled or zoned to attend. Students who are receiving hospital or homebound instruction shall also be eligible to participate.
TN Code § 49-16-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-201. Short Title. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Virtual Public Schools Act.”
TN Code § 49-16-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-202. Purpose. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 The purpose of this part is to provide an LEA with an alternative choice to offer additional educational resources in an effort to improve academic achievement.
TN Code § 49-16-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-203. Part Definitions. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Establisher” means an LEA; and   “Virtual school” means a public school in which the school uses technology in order to deliver a significant portion of instruction to its students via the internet in a virtual or remote setting.
TN Code § 49-16-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-204. Establishment of Public School — Resources. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 Virtual schools may be established by an LEA. A virtual school shall be a public school and shall be provided resources as any other public school in the state.
TN Code § 49-16-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-205. What Virtual School Will Provide Students. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 A virtual school shall provide each student enrolled in the school:   Access to a sequential curriculum that meets or exceeds the academic standards adopted by the state board of education. The sequential curriculum shall have an interactive program with significant online components;   The same length of time for learning opportunities per academic year that is required under § 49-6-3004 for public school students; provided, however, that a student, at the student's own pace, may demonstrate mastery or completion of a course or subject area and be given credit for the course or subject area; and   Regular assessment in language arts, math, science and social studies.
TN Code § 49-16-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-206. What Virtual School Will Provide Families. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 For each family with a student enrolled, the virtual school shall:   Provide instructional materials; and   Ensure materials and access to necessary technology such as computer, printer and internet connection used for school work or, at minimum, through a physical computer lab that is available to the student through regularly scheduled times.
TN Code § 49-16-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-207. No Assistance With Purchase of Instructional Programs or Materials — Reimbursement for Internet Connection. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 Virtual schools shall not provide assistance to students or families to purchase instructional programs or materials. Nothing in this section shall prohibit virtual schools from reimbursing families for costs associated with their internet connection for use in the virtual school program.
TN Code § 49-16-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-208. Qualifications of Teachers. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 Each teacher employed at a virtual school shall be qualified to teach in this state under existing law.
TN Code § 49-16-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-209. Computer-Based and Internet-Based Instruction. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 Nothing in this part shall preclude the use of computer-based and Internet-based instruction for students in a virtual or remote setting.
TN Code § 49-16-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-210. Administrative Office as Principal Place of Business. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 A virtual school shall maintain an administrative office within the state. This office shall be considered its principal place of business.
TN Code § 49-16-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-211. Enrollment. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

  Any student who is eligible for enrollment in a public school in this state may enroll in a virtual school as either a full-time virtual school student or as a part-time virtual school student taking some of the student's courses through the virtual school. An LEA is authorized to charge tuition to any person not enrolled in a public school within the LEA for attendance in an LEA established virtual school.   Initial enrollment in a public virtual school shall be limited to one thousand five hundred (1,500) students; however, any public virtual school in operation as of January 1, 2013, may continue to serve the number of students enrolled in the school as of May 14, 2013. If a public virtual school demonstrates student achievement growth at a minimum level of “at expectations” as represented by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) developed pursuant to chapter 1, part 6 of this title and guidelines adopted by the state board of education pursuant to chapter 1, part 3 of this title the school may exceed the enrollment cap.
TN Code § 49-16-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-212. Operation According to Educational Cooperation Act. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 In order to encourage collaboration among LEAs, a virtual school is authorized to operate according to the authority granted by the Educational Cooperation Act, compiled in chapter 2, part 13 of this title.
TN Code § 49-16-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-213. Evaluation Criteria. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

  A virtual school shall be evaluated annually by its establisher based on the following criteria:  The extent to which the school demonstrates increases in student achievement according to the goals of its authorizing contract and state academic standards; and   The accountability and viability of the virtual school, as demonstrated by its academic, fiscal and operational performance.     In addition to the intervention options available under § 49-1-602, if a public virtual school is identified as a priority school pursuant to § 49-1-602 or demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of “significantly below expectations” for any three (3) consecutive years of the school's operation, as represented by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) developed pursuant to chapter 1, part 6 of this title and guidelines adopted by the state board of education pursuant to chapter 1, part 3 of this title the commissioner shall have the authority to reinstitute the enrollment cap specified in § 49-16-211(b) or direct the LEA to close the school. If the commissioner reinstitutes the enrollment cap pursuant to this subsection (b), such cap shall not affect students enrolled in the virtual school at the time of the department's action. Notwithstanding § 49-3-351(d), if a public virtual school is closed upon direction of the commissioner or the LEA, the basic education program (BEP) payments for the LEA that established the school shall be exclusive of any student who was enrolled in the school the prior year and did not remain enrolled in the LEA.
TN Code § 49-16-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-214. Contracting for Services. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 An establisher may contract for services with nonprofit and for-profit entities in the operation and management of the virtual school.
TN Code § 49-16-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-215. Rules and Regulations. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 The state board of education shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part. All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 49-16-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 16 - Virtual Education|Part 2 - Virtual Public Schools Act [Effective Until June 30, 2023]|§ 49-16-216. Part Repealer. [Effective Until June 30, 2023.]

 This part is repealed effective June 30, 2023.
TN Code § 49-50-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-101. Purpose

 The purpose of this part is to extend practical demonstration instruction in agriculture, home economics and marketing to boys, girls, men and women in rural communities in a greater number of counties and to make such instruction more permanent in the several counties through increased financial support and correspondingly reduced county appropriations, to carry on the work.
TN Code § 49-50-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-102. Nature of Work

 This work shall be known as cooperative extension work, carried on in cooperation with the United States department of agriculture, provided for in the Smith-Lever Act, Public Act May 8, 1914, ch. 79, § 1, 38 Stat. 372 (7 U.S.C. §§ 341-349), and in accordance with the regulations provided for in that act for the conduct of this work, which provide that this work shall include:   Practical demonstration instruction in agriculture and home economics;   Conducting 4-H boys' and girls' clubs for teaching farm and home practices;   Introducing new crops and new systems of farming in various areas of the state, as development in industry necessitates changes in existing crops and systems of farming;   Developing improved methods of marketing farm products; and   In general, improving rural life, with the object of making farming more prosperous and farm life more desirable and attractive.
TN Code § 49-50-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-103. Funding

  In order to cooperate with the United States department of agriculture and the University of Tennessee in making available to boys, girls, men and women in the rural communities practical and useful instruction in agriculture, home economics and marketing as referred to in § 49-50-102, there is appropriated from moneys in the general treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for each fiscal year one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) to be used to match and supplement allotments of federal appropriations available to the state for carrying on this work under the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 341-349), and made conditional on similar sums of money being appropriated by the state.   The moneys so appropriated shall be paid each year in semiannual payments and applied and disbursed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and in accordance with the plans and under the direction of the United States department of agriculture and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee. On July 1 and January 1 of each year, the commissioner of finance and administration is authorized and directed to issue warrants in favor of the treasurer of the University of Tennessee for the amount due on those dates.   The entire amount of this appropriation shall be known as the cooperative agricultural extension fund, and a separate accounting for its expenditure shall be made by the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee in the biennial report to the governor and the general assembly. Full and complete vouchers of all such expenditures shall be kept for auditing by proper national and state officials.   If there should remain in any year a balance of the state appropriation after matching the federal allotments, it, together with interest earned on the unexpended balance, shall be added to the amount available for the ensuing year.
TN Code § 49-50-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-104. County Agricultural Extension Committee

  All counties cooperating with the University of Tennessee extension by making an appropriation for extension work shall elect an agricultural extension committee composed of seven (7) members. The committee shall be elected by the county legislative body.   Three (3) of the members shall be elected from the membership of the county legislative body. There shall be elected to the committee four (4) members who are not members of the county legislative body. Two (2) shall be farmers and two (2) shall be farm women, residing in different civil districts.   The members shall be elected for terms of two (2) years, except that if there are fewer than four (4) civil districts in a county, at least one (1) member shall come from each civil district. Two (2) of the members representing the county legislative body, one (1) farmer and one (1) farm woman, shall be elected in even-numbered years; the other members shall be elected in odd-numbered years. The elections shall be held at the first meeting of the county legislative body of each calendar year. No member may be elected for more than three (3) successive terms. In the event that there is a vacancy on the committee, the county legislative body shall fill the vacancy at its next regular meeting after the vacancy occurs; and the committee member filling the vacancy shall serve during the unexpired term of the member's predecessor.   The functions of the committee shall be to:  Act with duly authorized representatives of the University of Tennessee extension in the employment or removal of personnel receiving funds from county extension appropriations;   Act with duly authorized representatives of the state agricultural extension service in formulating the county extension budget, and serve as liaison between the extension service and the county legislative body on financial and other matters relating to the work;   Act in an advisory capacity on county extension program formulation; and   Act in an advisory capacity on activities performed in connection with carrying out the program.     In performing the functions under subsection (d), the committee shall meet with duly authorized representatives of the University of Tennessee extension on selected dates mutually agreed to by the chair of the committee and the representatives of the University of Tennessee extension during the months of February, May, August and November, and at other times deemed desirable by a majority of the members of the committee.
TN Code § 49-50-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-105. Intercounty Cooperation

  For participation in the benefits of this part, contiguous counties may cooperate and be regarded as one (1) county in the employment of either a county agricultural agent or county home demonstration agent, or both; provided, that the combined area of the counties cooperating does not exceed eight hundred square miles (800 sq. mi.) and that the assessed valuation of one (1) of the counties does not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).   The plans for such cooperation shall be arranged by the county mayors of the respective counties involved, and approved by the director of extension work of the University of Tennessee.
TN Code § 49-50-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-106. Conflicts of Interest

 It is a Class C misdemeanor for any person employed under this part to engage in the business of soliciting or selling any fertilizer, seed, farm machinery or any other merchandise to the people of the county or counties where they are so employed.
TN Code § 49-50-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-107. Agricultural Financial and Family Counseling

   It is declared the intention of the general assembly to establish services for the well being of farmers and their families who are affected by farm credit problems and the financial difficulties currently existing in the agricultural and related business communities.   The general assembly recognizes the economic and emotional stress being imposed on many of the farm owners and their families by the farm credit crisis that has been caused by the weakening of farm incomes coupled with the rising costs of farm operations.   The general assembly finds that there is a need to provide a program for assisting and advising the individuals within the agricultural community who are experiencing stress and economic difficulties or dislocation caused by the current deteriorated market conditions for agricultural products and the resulting loss of farm income. The general assembly finds and declares that preservation of the family owned farms and farm-related businesses are in the interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the state.      The University of Tennessee, acting through its extension services, is directed to establish a farm credit counseling program to disseminate information to farmers concerning farm credit problems and to provide advice and counseling regarding other financial problems. The University of Tennessee is also directed to develop and provide a program in stress management and family counseling for individuals and families with farms and agricultural related businesses threatened by farm credit and financial problems.   The department of agriculture, and any other department or agency of state government shall assist the University of Tennessee in establishing and providing the programs required by this section.   In the development of the programs, the University of Tennessee is requested to consult with agricultural organizations.   The University of Tennessee shall designate a coordinator of the financial and family counseling program to implement and manage the program.
TN Code § 49-50-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous|Part 1 - Agricultural Extension Services|§ 49-50-108. Compensation of University of Tennessee Extension Employees Holding Joint Appointments

 The University of Tennessee is authorized to provide employees of the University of Tennessee extension holding a joint appointment with the United States department of agriculture, salary increases and compensation commensurate with that received by other state employees and teachers employed by the University of Tennessee.