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Texas |
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| State-by-State Assessment of Personal Finance Education Standards | |
| State Department of Education Link | https://tea.texas.gov/ |
| Stand-Alone Personal Finance Standards | Yes Texas does require a one-half credit high school elective course, developed in response to TEC, §28.0021, which requires each school district and each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school program to provide this specific course in personal financial literacy as a high school elective. Standards are also embedded within the required economics course required for graduation. http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113c.html#113.49 https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/Personal%20Financial%20Literacy%20FAQs%208-31-2016.pdf |
| Personal Finance Standards in Career and Technical Education (CTE), Family and Consumer Sciences | Yes Family and Consumer Sciences offers a course entitled Dollars and Sense that covers personal financial literacy standards. |
| Personal Finance Embedded in Social Studies or Economics Standards | Yes The Personal Financial Literacy standards are taught within the social studies curriculum. http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113c.html |
| Personal Finance or Financial Literacy Course Required for Graduation or Required to be Offered | Yes Financial literacy standards are embedded within the course “Financial Mathematics”. Financial Mathematics is a course about personal money management. Students will apply critical-thinking skills to analyze personal financial decisions based on current and projected economic factors. |
| Personal Finance or Financial Literacy Course Required for Graduation or Required to be Offered | No Students are required to take economics that has some financial literacy embedded for graduation. The stand-alone financial literacy course is not required for graduation but can be taken for elective credit. |
| State Assessment of Personal Finance Required | No |
