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OPI to Require Government and Financial Literacy Education for all Montana High School Students
The Montana Board of Public Training (BPE) will aid a proposal by the Office of Community Instruction (OPI) to add a civics or governing administration and a monetary literacy or economics class to the present-day graduation requirements for Montana superior faculty pupils. The new prerequisites, which will carry the excess weight of half a device toward graduation within the recent 20-device prerequisites, will be applied as a result of versatile rules at the nearby degree. Although educators in the Flathead Valley supported the addition of personal finance and civic education in faculties, some expressed worries around the impending mandate, which could additional extend district budgets and employees capacities amid a…

