Somewhat Comprehensive |
Kansas |
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| State-by-State Assessment of Personal Finance Education Standards | |
| State Department of Education Link | https://www.ksde.org/ |
| Stand-Alone Personal Finance Standards | Yes Kansas has adopted the National Jump$tart standards as their state standards for financial literacy. They are indicated for Kindergarten, 4th, 8th and 12 grades, however, should be referenced to determine all K-12 financial literacy instruction to determine grade appropriateness. |
| Personal Finance Standards in Career and Technical Education (CTE), Family and Consumer Sciences | Yes Family and Consumer Sciences Education teaches personal financial literacy skills directly through the Consumer and Personal Finance courses available to Kansas schools. A number of Kansas schools require this course for graduation. Both the Jump$tart standards and the National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards are used to teach this course. |
| Personal Finance Embedded in Social Studies or Economics Standards | Yes Standards are embedded in Economics courses and provides a context for the importance of financial literacy. |
| Personal Finance or Financial Literacy Course Required for Graduation or Required to be Offered | 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. |
| Personal Finance or Financial Literacy Course Required for Graduation or Required to be Offered | No Kansas does not have specific course for financial literacy; however, standards are required to be taught across all grade levels. |
| State Assessment of Personal Finance Required | No Mathematics assessment given to all students does require that certain personal financial literacy topics be tested as part of the assessment. |
