"We can't wait for a personal finance course in high school," he said. "We need to infuse it more naturally so that by the time they get to high school there's a better understanding of it."
"I expect that as we reopen schools, we are aggressively addressing whatever instructional loss and time our students have had," Cardona said. This includes providing adequate support for students and families, as well as rethinking curriculum. "When we talk about financial literacy planning, we have to be very intentional about it," Cardona said. This includes making sure that students can see themselves in the curriculum so that they feel connected to schools.It also means providing resources in other languages, especially Spanish, so that parents and students can learn about personal finance. Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the U.S.
"What we're doing is elevating best practices," Cardona said. "What we're doing is looking for state level policies that do promote financial literacy at an earlier age and lifting those up."