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State Department of Education Link
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https://www.ksde.org/
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Stand-Alone Personal Finance Standards
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Yes
Kansas has adopted the National Jump$tart standards as their state standards for financial literacy. They are indicated for Kindergarten, 4th, 8th and 12 grades, however, should be referenced to determine all K-12 financial literacy instruction to determine grade appropriateness.
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Personal Finance Standards in Career and Technical Education (CTE), Family and Consumer Sciences
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Yes
Family and Consumer Sciences Education teaches personal financial literacy skills directly through the Consumer and Personal Finance courses available to Kansas schools. A number of Kansas schools require this course for graduation. Both the Jump$tart standards and the National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards are used to teach this course.
https://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/CSAS/Content%20Area%20(F-L)/Family%20and%20Consumer%20Sciences/FCS_Resources/Consumer%20and%20Personal%20Finance%20Education%20Webpage.pdf?ver=2014-01-30-104531-243
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Personal Finance Embedded in Social Studies or Economics Standards
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Yes
Standards are embedded in Economics courses and provides a context for the importance of financial literacy.
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Personal Finance Embedded in Mathematics Common Core Standards
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Yes
Financial Literacy standards are embedded throughout the mathematics curriculum and provides a prerequisite for number sense and computation skills students need to study financial literacy.
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Personal Finance or Financial Literacy Course Required for Graduation or Required to be Offered
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No
Kansas does not have specific course for financial literacy; however, standards are required to be taught across all grade levels.
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State Assessment of Personal Finance Required
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No
Mathematics assessment given to all students does require that certain personal financial literacy topics be tested as part of the assessment.
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