Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2016: High Schoolers Can’t Bank on Their Knowledge of Money Matters. These Educators Want to Change That

“Rishagen: I taught at a high school for 12 years. It’s really a travesty that educators have not made a requirement for financial literacy to be on the curriculum. Why do we learn how to calculate the area of a triangle in high school but not the power of compound interest? What if financial literacy was taught in the public schools? How would that affect the poverty level or the crime level? The parents are lacking in this kind of knowledge as well. We have had requests from parents if they could sit in on the workshops.”