Wong asks about personal finance rollout for grades 5-12 and teacher licensure

Okay.

Thank you, Chair.

I have a question concerning the personal finance on the phase two of New York Inspires that was adopted by Board of Regents.

There's a K-12 personal finance education requirement.

Effective on 2026-27 school year.

For grades 5 to 12.

And then for 2027-28 school year for grades K-4, how has the rollout gone so far?

And then please talk about it.

Oh, great.

Thank you.

We had Jane speak a little bit before about personal finance, so I'm going to turn it over to her.

And I would say, I'm not sure if we need Delia teed up.

If she wants to jump in and compliment, she leads our curriculum and instruction work.

Yeah.

And my part two to that is like math teachers teaching it or social studies or somebody else is teaching this.

Thank you.

Sure, Council Member Wong.

We talked a little bit about it at the beginning.

We did spend a lot of time really teeing up, making sure that our school districts and our superintendents, and particularly our teachers, were really set up to execute

starting this fall for the grade bands that you spoke to during our summer institute session where we had 1,600 of our teachers and district champions help to execute.

What I spoke to earlier is that we have selected five, the implementation right now for grades five through 12 is that we,

our schools can provide instruction through a designated course, embedded instruction, a CTE pathway, or a combination of approaches.

And as a result, the implementation may occur.

During different grades or semesters, during the school's academic program.

or even, you know, depending on what their scheduling structure looks like.

And as students progress through the grade bands, the instruction is going to become increasingly more difficult and complex, right?

What you're teaching a fifth grader is going to be different than what you're teaching an 11th grader who's applying to college.

And we have selected several programs that we have worked with.

I mentioned EverFi before.

Another one is NextGen Financial Generation, which is one of the ones that are– I knew that one you would know.

But what we did was really making sure that we took in the feedback from our schools and because we have been doing financial literacy through the Future Ready program.

So are these finance teachers like math teachers, social studies, or they're special license?

It depends on how our schools want to actually implement the work.

It could be a social studies teacher.

It could be a CTE teacher.

It could be a math teacher.

So we are not designating that.

We just really want to make sure, as Chair Dynowitz and I talked about earlier, that the programs that we are using are meeting the standards that the state has set up.

Thank you.

I have one follow-up.

Yeah.