Governor Olene Walker signed Senate Bill 154 in 2003, making Utah the first state in the country to require a financial literacy course for high school graduation. The Utah State Board of Education approved the General Financial Literacy course the following year, with implementation beginning with the 2008 graduating class. In 2008, Utah became the first state in the country to require a personal finance course as a condition of high school graduation. Utah's Utah Senate Bill 154 established the precedent that would eventually inspire 29 other states to follow. The course covers income, taxes, budgeting, banking, saving, investing, credit, insurance, housing, and career planning.
Utah has had a mandate for 17 years, but the landscape of personal finance tools and technology has changed dramatically since 2008. The Crescara//Project brings Utah schools the most current, technology-enhanced curriculum available, built on the foundation Utah helped establish.
Utah Senate Bill 154 sets the minimum. A checklist of topics is not a curriculum. The Crescara//Project sequences Utah'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.
Utah schools that connect now will be ahead of the requirement. Reach out at info@crescaraproject.org.