Long discussed and debated, and often only as a pie-in-the-sky idea, California has become the 26^th state in the US to require a course in personal finance as a requirement for graduation as of 2030-2031, meaning these courses will need to be offered by 2027-2028 school year. Proponents say this is long overdue; skeptics are concerned it may limit students’ course flexibility. Whatever your stance, the need to familiarize many California students with the often-complicated landscape of financial literacy is hard to deny.