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Advocates press for statewide semester‑long personal finance requirement in Massachusetts high schools
Summary
The Financial Empowerment Network and education advocates urged the Joint Committee on Financial Services to move a proposal (Senate 752) directing the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to require a semester‑long personal finance course for high school juniors and seniors.
Advocates for financial education asked the Joint Committee on Financial Services to support legislation that would require a semester‑long personal finance course for all Massachusetts public high school students in grades 11–12.
Speakers from the Massachusetts Financial Education Network and related nonprofits described a decade of advocacy and cited public opinion and national research supporting a graduation requirement. Scott Geld, co‑chair of the K‑16 advocacy team for the Financial…
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