Financial Literary For Students Bill Passes House

To help Oklahoma students avoid bankruptcy in their college years and thereafter, members of the state House of Representatives voted today to require financial literacy instruction of all Oklahoma high school students.

House Bill 1476, the Passport to Financial Literacy Act, by Rep. Ann Coody, R-Lawton (pictured) would allow school districts to decide whether the components of personal financial literacy instruction would be incorporated into one or more existing courses of study or into a new course. Students could be instructed in the elements of personal financial literacy throughout grades seven through twelve.

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