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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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By Peter Cameron, The Badger Job Ever since she was small, Brittany Ousterhout desired to be a veterinarian. She experienced a enthusiasm for horses and preferred to shell out her days all around them. Then she ran the figures. In a money literacy training course at Milton Superior School, Ousterhout calculated the years she would commit in school, the 6-figure debt she would accumulate, and the comparatively small salary of a veterinarian. “The math did not math for me,” she reported not too long ago soon after her change as an ultrasound technician at a clinic in Madison. “It would have taken a extensive time to pay out off.” Ousterhout,…
