In 2009, the Virginia Board of Education updated graduation requirements to include a standalone, full-credit course in Economics and Personal Finance, codified in Virginia Code. The requirement went into effect for the graduating class of 2015 and remains in place today. Virginia has required a standalone personal finance course as part of high school graduation requirements for over a decade. Virginia's Standards of Learning for Personal Finance cover income, banking, budgeting, saving, credit, insurance, investing, taxes, housing, and consumer rights. The requirement applies to all public high school students.
Virginia's long history with the requirement means schools have curriculum in place, but quality and student outcomes vary widely. The Crescara//Project offers Virginia schools a comprehensive upgrade: 27 chapters, interactive financial tools, and a sequenced curriculum built to produce lasting financial competency.
Virginia Board of Education Economics and Personal Finance Requirement sets the minimum. A checklist of topics is not a curriculum. The Crescara//Project sequences Virginia'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.
Virginia schools that connect now will be ahead of the requirement. Reach out at info@crescaraproject.org.