Financial Literacy for Students Act
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Apr 25, 2013)
Financial Literacy for Students Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states to: (1) integrate financial literacy education into each of their public elementary and secondary schools that are eligible for school improvement funds under title I of the ESEA, and (2) train their secondary school financial literacy or entrepreneurship teachers to teach financial literacy in core academic subjects.
Prohibits states from using over 20% of their grant funds to train those teachers, develop curricula, and evaluate the impact of financial literacy or personal finance education.
What just happenedApr 25, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateApr 25, 2013
- Apr 25, 2013IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Apr 25, 2013IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate