School curriculum; require course in personal finance as graduation requirement.

HB 1710 requires all Mississippi public high school students, including those in charter schools, to pass a personal finance course (either a half-unit course or a full unit with at least half focused on financial literacy) to graduate, beginning with the Class of 2032. It establishes a Financial Literacy Trust Fund in the state treasury to support this program, administered by the State Board of Education with annual audits and reporting. The bill removes prior requirements for local school boards to implement financial literacy programs in grades 10-11 and extends the graduation requirement to charter schools. This policy directly affects high school students, educators, and state education funding mechanisms.