PENNSYLVANIA, January 20 - including loyalty to the State and National Government, personal

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 2. Section 1551 of the act, amended October 30, 2019

(P.L.460, No.76), is amended to read:

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.

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