The Personal Curriculum
The Personal Curriculum is a tool for modifying the Michigan Merit Curriculum in order to individualize the rigor and relevance of the state graduation requirements. All students are eligible for a Personal Curriculum (PC) with different populations of students falling under different rules for modifications allowed.
The latest data indicate that the use of the PC has risen steadily since the inception of the MMC
in 2006, and during the 2019-2020 school year 10,311 students used a PC to modify the MMC to
suit their post-school needs.
Click here for a guide developed by the Michigan Department of Education to help educators, students, and parents understand when it may be appropriate to use a personal curriculum (PC) option to modify the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC) requirements. State statute allows personal curriculum modification in order to:
- Go beyond the academic credit requirements by adding more math, science, English language arts, or world languages credits; or completing a department-approved formal career and technical education program.
- Modify the State Content Standards for Mathematics.
- Modify, when necessary, the credit requirements of a student with an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
- Modify credit requirements for a student who transfers from out of state or from a nonpublic school and is unable to meet the MMC requirements.