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Financial-Literacy Requirements

November 04, 2008 1 min read
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As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington-based nonprofit group Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial-services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

More information is available at www.jumpstart.org/state_legislation/index.cfm.

SOURCE: Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy

A version of this article appeared in the November 05, 2008 edition of Education Week

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