Vermont

NO standalone state personal finance/financial literacy graduation requirement. Rule 2120.8 says a student graduates by demonstrating PROFICIENCY in the Rule 2120.6 curriculum content areas (ELA, math, science, global citizenship, health/PE, arts, transferable skills) - financial literacy is NOT named among them. AOE nonetheless states that because the State Board adopted personal finance standards, 'it is expected that the Supervisory Union/Supervisory District (SU/SD) instruct and assess financial literacy concepts based on the standards; how that is accomplished is locally determined.'

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Source: NO statute. 16 V.S.A. 906 (minimum course of study) and Title 16 Chapter 23 contain no financial literacy provision. Governing authority is State Board Rule Series 2000 (Education Quality Standards), rules 2120.6 and 2120.8, adopted August 9, 2024, effective July 1, 2025 - NEITHER names financial literacy.

How it may be delivered: LOCALLY DETERMINED and cross-disciplinary - AOE describes financial literacy as multidisciplinary, implemented through social studies, mathematics, business, family and consumer science, flexible pathways, personalized learning plans and CTE centers; NO required course.; Source: Vermont — delivery model: primary source(s) named in the field text and at the linked URL; read and verified 2026-08-09
Credit value: Not yet verified to a primary source — we publish only what we can cite.
Instructional-hour rule: Not yet verified to a primary source — we publish only what we can cite.
Below high school: No separate middle/elementary financial literacy mandate or grade checkpoint; EQS curriculum content applies K-12 and AOE publishes VOLUNTARY Jump$tart alignment guides for Kindergarten, Grades 1-4 and Grades 5-8 (the adopted standards themselves are benchmarked at grades 4, 8 and 12).; Source: Vermont — below-high-school requirement: primary source(s) named in the field text and at the linked URL; read and verified 2026-08-09
State-mandated assessment: NONE. EQS Rule 2123.1 covers only the State Comprehensive Assessment System administered under 16 V.S.A. 164(9); no financial literacy state test or EOC is referenced, and AOE says instruction and assessment of financial literacy is locally determined.; Source: Vermont — state assessment: primary source(s) named in the field text and at the linked URL; read and verified 2026-08-09
Who may teach it: Not yet verified to a primary source — we publish only what we can cite.
State course codes: Not yet verified to a primary source — we publish only what we can cite.
Standards framework: Jump$tart/Council for Economic Education National Standards for Personal Financial Education (AOE calls them the 'JumpStart National Standards for Personal Finance Education'); AOE also publishes a Financial Literacy Proficiency-Based Graduation Hierarchy built on them (Adopted JANUARY 2018 by the State Board; the edition AOE currently links is the 2021 National Standards. The Financial Literacy PBGR Hierarchy is dated APRIL …); Source: Vermont — standards framework: primary source(s) named in the field text and at the linked URL; read and verified 2026-08-09
Funding a district may cite: Not yet verified to a primary source — we publish only what we can cite.
State agency contact: Martha Deiss, Global Citizenship Specialist, Vermont Agency of Education, 1 National Life Drive, Davis 5, Montpelier VT 05620-2501; Martha.Deiss@vermont.gov; (802) 828-6597.; Source: Vermont — agency contact: primary source(s) named in the field text and at the linked URL; read and verified 2026-08-09

Facts on this page last verified 2026-08-09; every pack is re-verified on a six-month cadence, and anything we cannot cite is marked rather than guessed.

The district awards the credit — no platform can. Ours is designed to align with the state’s learning standards, and it produces the documentation a district needs to award credit: the course object with its federal course code, a pass determination that shows its arithmetic, an hour ledger that counts only observed instructional minutes, and a verified record of demonstrated mastery for every student.

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