Did you know that there are currently 16 million students attending high school in the United States? And 10% of those students are enrolled in private schools. That means that there are 3.5 million students graduating every single year.
Here’s our prediction: By 2027, all 3.5 million graduating seniors will be required to pass a financial literacy or financial education course. It is our mission to provide the most entertaining, engaging, and empowering personal finance program for these students. Further, Money Vehicle’s goal is to continually build the best financial literacy course and empower students to start a financial plan.
Money Vehicle strives to reach each of these students to teach them how to manage money, consciously save, spend wisely, and invest. Understanding personal finance is a skill that will enable the next generation to live out their dreams!
Currently, a personal finance course is a high school graduation requirement in the following 14 states (which is subject to change!):
1. Alabama
Alabama high school students must take a one-year career preparedness course that includes personal finance lessons.
More information here.
2. Florida
High school students are required to take a personal finance class to graduate.
3. Georgia
High school students are required to take a financial literacy class in their 11th or 12th year to graduate.
4. Iowa
All school districts require students to take at least one half-year personal financial literacy course beginning in 2022-23.
More information here.
5. Michigan
High school students must take a personal finance course before graduation to receive a diploma.
6. Mississippi
Beginning in 2022, Mississippi will require students to take a college and career readiness course before graduation. Financial literacy is one of the units for students in that course.
7. Missouri
Students must earn one-half credit in the area of personal finance to graduate.
8. Nebraska
Beginning with the 2023-24 school year, students must take at least five hours of personal finance or financial literacy classes to graduate high school.
9. North Carolina
Students are required to pass a personal finance class to graduate.
10. Ohio
Students entering the ninth grade on or after July 1, 2022, must earn one-half credit of financial literacy to graduate.
11. Rhode Island
The state is developing a plan to create statewide standards for financial literacy in public schools.
12. Tennessee
High school students must take a half-year course in personal finance to graduate.
More information here.
13. Utah
All high school students must take a half-year course on personal finance topics as well as an end-of-course assessment administered by the state.
14. Virginia
High school students must take one-year economics and personal finance course as a graduation requirement.
More information here.
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