finance, safety education, and the humane treatment of birds and
animals, health, including physical education, and physiology,
music and art. Other subjects shall be taught in the public
elementary schools and also in the public high schools as may be
prescribed by the standards of the State Board of Education. All
such subjects, except foreign languages, shall be taught in the
English language and from English texts: Provided, however,
That, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the teaching of subjects in a language other than
English may be permitted as part of a sequence in foreign
language study or as part of a bilingual education program if
the teaching personnel are properly certified in the subject
fields. Each school district shall provide and distribute to
each pupil, enrolled in the eighth grade of the public schools,
one illustrated copy of the National Flag Code, and shall, from
time to time, make available such copies as are necessary for
replacements from year to year. It shall be the duty of each
teacher in the public schools to make such use of the code as
may, from time to time, seem proper.
Section 1551. [Economic Education and Personal Financial
Literacy] Personal Finance Education Programs.--(a) The
department shall have the power and its duty shall be to:
[(1) Provide resource information on economics, economic
education and personal financial literacy to educators and
public and private schools and organizations.]
(1.1) Ensure that all recipients of a high school diploma in
this Commonwealth are proficient in personal finance.
(1.2) Develop stand-alone kindergarten through grade twelve
academic standards for personal finance that align with this
section, sections 1551.1 and 1551.2 and 22 Pa. Code Ch. 4
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