Pupil instruction: economics: personal finance.

Existing law requires a school district, as part of its adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, social sciences, drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. This bill would authorize the instruction provided in economics to include instruction related to the understanding of personal finances, including, but not limited to, mathematics, budgeting, savings, credit, and identity theft. The bill would require the State Department of Education to develop a personal finances curriculum in the next cycle in which the mathematics and history-social science curricula frameworks are adopted. The bill would also make several legislative findings and declarations.