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Assembly reintroduces bill requiring financial literacy class as graduation requirement for Wisconsin high schools
Financial literacy could become a required course for Wisconsin high school students under a revised state Assembly bill. Last year, Wisconsin’s GOP floated a plan to require high school students to complete a full credit of financial literacy in order to receive their diploma. It would have gone into effect for the 2022-23 school year. But the tight timeline and cost to school districts to implement the classes caused the measure to fail. The revised bill would shorten the requirement to a half credit and would not begin until the 2028 school year. On Thursday, the Assembly Committee on Education heard three hours of testimony from students, teachers and non-profits…
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Students need financial literacy as a graduation requirement
In get to greatly enhance financial prosperity in New Mexico it is very important that we continue on to find methods to increase educational outcomes for all. 1 way to do that is by offering simple money education to our younger folks. When a lot of proposals get caught up in partisan battles in the legislative session, economical literacy should really not be 1 of all those. It is time for New Mexico to sign up for the other 32 states that make fiscal literacy a graduation requirement. Dion’s is one of New Mexico’s most significant non-public businesses, and I get to witness firsthand some of the troubles confronting our…
