Current through Public Act 166 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 380.1166b - Free enterprise and entrepreneurship instruction programs(1) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy is encouraged to ensure that the school district's or public school academy's social studies curriculum for grades 9 to 12 includes a program of instruction in free enterprise and entrepreneurship.(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude a school district or public school academy from including instruction described in subsection (1) in other subject areas or grade levels.(3) A program of instruction under this section must be project-based and may provide instruction on any of the following subjects: (a) Business vocabulary, including, at least, entrepreneurship, free enterprise, business finance, goods and services, and innovation.(b) Entrepreneurs from this state and around the world.(c) Action activities, including, at least, setting short-term and long-term goals.(d) Business basics, including, at least, taxes for businesses and corporations, essential skills for business owners, and product- and service-based business ideas.(e) Creating a student project-based business plan.(4) As used in this section, "entrepreneur" means an individual who organizes and operates a business or businesses and takes on greater than normal financial risk to do so.Added by 2022, Act 54,s 1, eff. 3/29/2023.