California to Add Personal Finance Course as Requirement for High School Graduation
“We need to help Californians prepare for their financial futures as early as possible.”
This is the first smart thing California has done for education in years. Why isn’t this already done everywhere?
FOX News reports:
California to add personal finance course as requirement to graduate high school
California high school students will soon be required to take a financial literacy course to graduate, thanks to a bill slated to be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom soon.
AB 2927, sponsored by Democratic State Rep. Kevin McCarty and co-authored by a league of bipartisan lawmakers, requires students graduating in the class of 2030-2031 to take a semester-long personal finance course, meaning public high schools and charter schools will be required to offer the course beginning in the 2027-2028 school year.
“We need to help Californians prepare for their financial futures as early as possible. Saving for the future, making investments, and spending wisely are lifelong skills that young adults need to learn before they start their careers, not after,” Newsom said of the effort, per a press release from the Golden State’s official website.
The release indicated that Newsom, along with Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and NGPF Mission 2030 – a national financial literacy nonprofit – agreed to make the content a requirement for high school graduates in the near future.
McCarty, commenting on the bill’s success, said he is “thrilled” to know the legislation will be signed into law.
“I’m proud to be the lead author on this important policy and help students make smart money decisions that will benefit them throughout their adult lives. I want to thank Next Gen Personal Finance, Governor Newsom, Speaker Rivas, and Senate President pro Tempore McGuire, for their leadership in making this happen,” he said, per ABC 10 in Sacramento.
This comes as some findings, including data from a recent WalletHub survey, indicate Gen Z is the least financially confident generation, with 28% expressing a lack of confidence in their ability to manage money, along with a lack of budgeting and a skeptical attitude toward the possibility of homeownership at some point in their lives.
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Don’t they need to learn the math which is no longer taught due to DEI.
They need to make it mandatory for everyone in Sacramento as well as any office holder in the state.
They need to learn how to file for Unemployment Insurance with EDD. How to re-load that debit card.
In the advanced course, they learn how to put condoms on multi-level marketing schemes.
personal finance from the lefty:
go into store
take what you want
orrrrr
write a paper or better yet plagiarize your work
and of course
just write your sad sack story to your harvard etc and they will rubber stamp you a phd
Then you get a cushy career selling Ph.Decaf.
When my kid was in 11th grade, I made him take the 3-day Dale Carnegie Basic Course. That was fifteen years ago, and he recently told me quite out of the blue that that was the most useful thing he did in high school. No, this is not a bot or an ad, I do not get anything out of this.
Do they teach about the $950 permit.
But that’s on purpose. You can just steal them out of city hall and it’s not prosecutable.
“We need to help Californians prepare for their financial futures as early as possible.”
So, you’re going to teach them how to work as professional beggars?
Gov newscum turning CA into the promise land for homeless junkies.
Clearly, Gov. Noisome and his ilk have never had an analogous course.
Or anything in economics.
Homeschool your children.
If you love your children even a little bit(!), homeschool them.
They’ll learn more personal finance by playing a game of Monopoly with you than they’ll learn from any California curriculum.
Also — why haven’t you and your kids gotten the heck out of California yet?