Financial literacy.

• Position: CalCPA Government Relations News - Brief article

Two bills have been introduced to incorporate financial literacy into the high school curriculum. AB 166 (Hernandez) would require that financial literacy education be included in the high school curriculum for California schools, and AB 391 (Wieckowski) would similarly enact the Common Cents Curriculum Act of 2013 to require the State Department of Education to develop and adopt a personal financial literacy curriculum that includes, but is not limited to, budgeting, savings, credit and loans, identity theft and paying for postsecondary education to be added to the...