These 11 States Require Financial Ed to Graduate High School

Minnesota

For the 2024–2025 school year and later, the law requires high school students to complete a course for credit in personal finance in grade 10, 11 or 12 taught by a teacher with an agricultural education, business, family and consumer science, social studies or math license.

Montana

The law generally revises current education laws to include a definition for financial literacy as it applies to administrative rules. It includes economics or personal finance as a graduation requirement.

Nevada

The law incorporates financial literacy within the economics course, adds a student to the financial literacy task force and requires instruction to ensure that students have the skill to develop a financial plan.

Oregon

The law adds the completion by students of one credit of future planning as a requirement for high school diplomas awarded on or after July 1, 2025. It directs the State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards for future planning, and requires school districts and public charter schools to provide instruction in future planning. 

Tennessee

Two laws have come into force.

One replaces Financial Literacy Week, the first full week of April, with Financial Literacy Month, the entire month of April. It also requires the financial literacy commission to study financial literacy education efforts and report to the General Assembly by Dec. 31. 

As introduced, the second law requires at least one grade level in each public elementary and middle school to schedule at least five days each school year to highlight age-appropriate financial literacy concepts that include earning income, spending, saving, managing credit and investing. 

West Virginia

Beginning with the 2023–2024 school year, the law requires each high school student to complete a one credit or one half credit course in personal finance in order to graduate.