Suzanne Costanza is the executive director of the
Council for Economic Education. And Aaron Standish is the financial literacy coordinator for K-12 in the Palm Beach County School District.
This excerpt of the conversation has been edited for clarity.
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WLRN: Is there proof that kids who learn financial literacy are better prepared to take on credit cards, loans or buy a home one day?
MORRISON: There s been some great research in the last several years. In fact, one piece of research compared two states side by side one where there was financial education, one when there wasn t. They found that kids who received the education were getting out of college and their credit scores were higher and their loan default rates were lower. It also has an even outsized impact on kids from low and moderate-income areas, who very often don t have parents who speak the language of money for a whole variety o
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By Joel Malkin
May 12, 2021
No masks for kids. That was the response from Governor DeSantis when asked on Tuesday what should be the directive for school districts across the state next fall. Our direction is relatively simple.have a normal school year.
That statement was followed by applause from the people with the governor at a private Catholic school in Jacksonville.
While not issuing any executive orders related to face coverings in schools, the governor pointed out that a lot of private schools have had a normal school year, and he feels that s what public schools should like like for the 2021/22 school year.