Tennessee established its personal finance graduation requirement in 2013, codified in the Tennessee Code Annotated. Beginning with the graduating class of 2013, every Tennessee student has been required to complete a half-credit financial literacy course before receiving a diploma. Tennessee has required a standalone personal finance course for high school graduation since 2014. The requirement is one of the oldest in the country and applies to all public high school students. Tennessee's standards cover income, taxes, budgeting, banking, saving, credit, insurance, investing, housing, and consumer rights.
Tennessee has had a mandate for over a decade, but what most schools are teaching has not kept pace with what students actually need to know. The Crescara//Project offers Tennessee schools the most current, comprehensive, and technology-enhanced personal finance curriculum available.
Tennessee Personal Finance Graduation Requirement sets the minimum. A checklist of topics is not a curriculum. The Crescara//Project sequences Tennessee'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.
Tennessee schools that connect now will be ahead of the requirement. Reach out at info@crescaraproject.org.