High Schools Expand Personal Finance Graduation Requirements

Thirty-nine US states now require students to complete a personal finance course to graduate, up from just one state in 1998, according to Bloomberg. Leslie Finnan, senior advocacy director at the Council for Economic Education, said students who take these courses tend to make better financial decisions, have higher credit scores, and manage student loans more responsibly. Bloomberg This Weekend’s Lisa Mateo also spoke with Brooklyn Preparatory High School assistant principal and financial literacy educator Diana Isern about the curriculum of a modern finance class.