San Diego high schoolers learn personal finance as California adds a requirement
More than 100 San Diego high schoolers learned about personal finance at Intuit’s San Diego Campus on Thursday, as California moves to require a semester of personal finance for all high schoolers.
About 150 students from San Diego Unified, Poway, Grossmont, and San Dieguito Union participated in the workshop.
Intuit’s Financial Literacy Forum aims to bring complex money concepts to life via interactive tools and scenarios. The experience features game-style financial challenges and shows students how to navigate the “real world,” from maximizing tax refunds with TurboTax to managing credit with Credit Karma.
“Over 80% of adults actually indicate they wish they had had a personal finance course in high school and the same percentage really applies to recent high school graduates,” said Dave Zasada, Vice President of Education at Intuit. “You never have a class like personal finance, and kids walk away saying, ‘Geez, did I really learn anything that’s going to be applicable for me in life?”
In June 2024, Governor Newsom signed AB 2927 into law, which adds a stand-alone personal finance course to high school graduation requirements, effective for the 2030-2031 school year. Public schools, including charter schools, will begin offering the course in the 2027-2028 school year.
Intuit also has a curriculum that recently received UC course approval as more schools look to implement this type of education.
