In November 2021, the Kansas State Board of Education approved updated graduation requirements, including a required half-credit financial literacy course for all Kansas public high school students. The requirement is a Board of Education rule rather than a standalone legislative act. Kansas established a personal finance graduation requirement in 2024, joining the growing number of states that have made financial literacy a condition of receiving a high school diploma. The requirement applies to all students in public high schools and demands a standalone course covering income, banking, credit, savings, and investing.
Kansas schools are now identifying curriculum that meets the state's financial literacy standards. The Crescara//Project is fully developed and ready to implement, covering all required content areas and providing teachers with a complete, technology-driven program that requires no prior financial background.
Kansas State Board of Education Graduation Requirement sets the minimum. A checklist of topics is not a curriculum. The Crescara//Project sequences Kansas'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.
Kansas schools that connect now will be ahead of the requirement. Reach out at info@crescaraproject.org.