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Board approves 2025–26 academic program changes, adds state-mandated personal finance and AP African American Studies option
Summary
The board approved several high-school program updates for 2025–26 including a required personal finance course (per Act 35 of 2023), renaming and retitling of several family- and career‑focused courses, a financial algebra elective, AP African American Studies, and splitting AP Physics C into two courses.
The Abington Board of School Directors approved multiple changes to the district’s Program of Studies for the 2025–26 school year, including a new required personal finance course for 10th graders to meet Pennsylvania requirements, new course titles and several academic additions at the senior high.
Highlights of the approved package: the business department will replace Foundations of Innovation 2 with a Personal Finance course to comply with Act 35 of 2023 (state financial‑literacy requirements). Family and Consumer Science course titles were revised for…
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