California Financial Literacy Ballot Initiative Gathers Sufficient Signatures

The proposal, which may appear on the November ballot, would require all high school students to take a personal finance class.

A credit card is placed into a card machine for processing payments in La Puente, Calif., on Sept. 11, 2023. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

A ballot measure that would require California schools to teach students about financial literacy is gaining momentum.

The California Personal Finance Education Initiative, which would make all high school students take at least one semester of a personal finance course, needs to gather 546,651 verified petition signatures in order to appear on the November ballot before state voters.