How a Virginia School is Empowering the Next Generation of Financially Literate Adults

April 30, 2025 | wtop.com

The students in Paul’s economics and personal finance honors class learn about everything from banking and budgeting to investing toward retirement and how to plan for college and a future career, before capping it off with a final project that ties the topics all together.

Since 2011, Virginia high school students are required to take an economics and personal finance course in order to graduate. The Commonwealth’s General Assembly passed the legislation with the goal of introducing the next generation of consumers, employees and responsible citizens to the market economy.

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