Grade A for the Class of 2027. Once legislative approval is granted to amend Regulation No. 43-234 Defined Program, Grades 9–12 and Graduation Requirements, South Carolina will have a grade A. The graduation requirements beginning with the entering freshman class of 2023–2024 will include a stand-alone, half-year course in personal finance. The first class to graduate with this new requirement will be the Class of 2027. The appropriations bill passed by the South Carolina legislature in 2022 included language that instructed the DOE through the State Board of Education (BOE) "to promulgate regulations to update the current graduation requirements to include within the existing credits a required half-credit in personal finance." Full implementation of the stand-alone half-year personal finance course is scheduled for the 2023–2024 academic year. As part of this process, the DOE will identify a full-year course that will also meet this new graduation requirement.
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