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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires public schools to teach the Success Sequence in grades 6 and 10 starting in 2026
Last action · March 10, 2025: Referred to Public EducationSponsor: Matt Shaheen
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to required instruction in the Success Sequence for students in public schools.
School districts and charter schools across Texas must integrate specific economic and family stability milestones into courses such as health, economics, or personal financial literacy.
- The Success Sequence is a sociological concept asserting that young adults who graduate high school, work full-time, and marry before having children are far more likely to avoid poverty. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
public school students
Students in grade 6 and grade 10 must receive instruction on the Success Sequence prior to graduation starting in the 2026-2027 school year.
school districts and open-enrollment charter schools
Schools must adopt and provide grade-level appropriate instruction in the theory and application of the Success Sequence.
State Board of Education
The Board must develop the curriculum, establish adoption rules, and has the option to partner with Texas-based nonprofit organizations.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 10, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Public Education
- Mar 10, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 12, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy75Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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