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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2920" measure-id="id113hr2920" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-08-01" update-date="2013-10-24">
<title>Financial Literacy for Students Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr2920v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-10-24">
<action-date>2013-08-01</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Financial Literacy for Students Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states to: (1) integrate financial literacy education into each of their public elementary and secondary schools that are eligible for school improvement funds under title I of the ESEA, and (2) train their secondary school financial literacy or entrepreneurship teachers to teach financial literacy in core academic subjects.</p> <p>Prohibits states from using over 20% of their grant funds to train those teachers, develop curricula, and evaluate the impact of financial literacy or personal finance education.</p>]]></summary-text>
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