Senate Joint Resolution No. 26, adopted by the General Assembly in 1976, reads in part as follows:

"Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, that the Board of Education is hereby directed to make a report to the General Assembly on the present and planned programs for the inclusion of classroom instruction on personal finance in the curriculum of the public schools. The Board shall report to the General Assembly not later than December one, nineteen hundred seventy-four. "

A committee including representatives of the Virginia Bankers Association, the Office of Consumer Affairs, institutions of higher education, the Virginia Education Association, and public school representatives reviewed present programs with personnel in the Department of Education.

The following report reflects the status of personal finance in the public school curriculum and of plans which are under way to strengthen the teaching of this subject.