Mississippi requires all public high school students to complete a College and Career Readiness course, which dedicates one full semester to personal finance. The personal finance semester covers financial goals, credit and debt management, saving, investing, and building wealth. Mississippi has required a standalone personal finance course for high school graduation since 2012, making it one of the earliest states to mandate dedicated financial literacy instruction. The course is half a credit and covers income, banking, budgeting, saving, credit, insurance, investing, taxes, and housing.
Mississippi's long history with the requirement means schools are now looking for curriculum upgrades, not just compliance. The Crescara//Project offers a modern, technology-enhanced financial literacy curriculum that goes well beyond the minimum Mississippi requires.
Mississippi College and Career Readiness Course Requirement sets the minimum. A checklist of topics is not a curriculum. The Crescara//Project sequences Mississippi's required content areas in the order students will actually encounter them in life, connects them to each other, and builds habits through repetition, not review sheets.
You can't teach investing without first teaching budgeting. You can't teach credit without first teaching income. The sequence is the curriculum.
Mississippi schools that connect now will be ahead of the requirement. Reach out at info@crescaraproject.org.