Call to action

AAFCS is asking you to provide your input on the National Career Clusters Framework.  Learn how you can Advocate for the inclusion of FCS in a Career Cluster

Learn More

https://youtu.be/5HNuD1LvOY0

View the Rationale for Establishing a FCS Career Cluster

FCS Alliance

Let’s Build a Statewide Alliance to Sustain Family and Consumer Sciences

View the Work Group Session Report

Suggested Next Steps:

– Survey time with FCS Alliance Stakeholders of best meeting times including month, day of the week, and time of the day.

– Kathryn Wood, OAFCS Webmaster, will create survey and send link to Susan Shockey and Margaret Jenkins for them to send to Ohio FCS Workgroup participants.

Legislation Concerning FCS

SB 17-

During the 3rd hearing on SB 17 with the House Primary & Secondary Committee two amendments to the bill were offered and accepted:

• Amendment 0763 will allow math teachers to teach financial literacy without a special license validation.
• Amendment 1233-1 will exempt students who successfully complete AP macroeconomics or AP microeconomics from the financial literacy course requirement for graduation. (Info about these courses is attached.)

During the 4th hearing on SB 17 with the House Primary & Secondary Committee 5 opposing witnesses shared their testimony.

During the 5th hearing on SB 17 with the House Primary & Secondary Committee on November 28, 2023, the committee made the following changes to the Senate-passed version of the bill: 

• Permits students to fulfill the financial literacy instruction requirement for high school graduation by successfully completing AP Microeconomics or AP Macroeconomics.
• Permits math teachers to teach financial literacy without a financial literacy license validation.

Reasons House Primary & Secondary Education Committee members should not support this bill:

• The financial literacy course requirement, as is, allows time for robust experiences that provide opportunities for students to dive deeply into the content and apply it to their own lives – all necessary to obtain the needed knowledge and skills for success in managing their finances.
• The hours included in a semester course are finite. The addition of 10 concepts of capitalism, therefore, reduces the time devoted to the essential concepts included in the standards for financial literacy.
• The study of capitalism without the comparison to other economic systems presents an inadequate view of capitalism; the comparison to other economic systems cannot be done within the fixed time frame without reducing the original financial literacy course to an ineffective sit-n-git experience.
• Satisfactory completion of AP macroeconomics or AP microeconomics does not provide students with the knowledge and skills required for financial literacy. Exempting those students from the financial literacy requirement leaves them unprepared for managing their personal and family finances.

Are you willing to provide a testimony? Please complete the form below and your written testimony to OHRPrimary&SecondaryEducationCommittee@ohiohouse.gov at least 24 hours before the Committee meeting. Limit your testimony to no more than five minutes and be prepared to cut it to three minutes if necessary.

Please send a message to the members of the Senate Finance Committee: