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D.C.’s top education official has unveiled a set of financial literacy standards, detailing what leaders think the city’s high-schoolers should learn about budgeting, saving and investing before they graduate.
The recommendations, proposed by the state superintendent of education, are yet another revamp of what D.C.’s 98,000 schoolchildren are expected to learn. Within the last year, the state board of education has adopted new social studies standards and guidance for menstrual health education.
The financial literacy standards are designed for high schools and span lessons in five major topic areas. They are based on guidance developed by the Council for Economic Education and Jump$tart — which advocate for personal finance education — as well as input from teachers, students and financial literacy experts, according to…
