Ontario High Schoolers Must Pass Exams on Managing Money, Homebuying From 2025

Ontario high school students will soon have to pass a financial literacy test, including topics such as managing budgets and saving to buy a home, starting in the 2025-26 school year. Provincial Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced plans May 30 to introduce financial literacy into the Grade 10 math curriculum, starting September 2025. “Too many young people, notwithstanding valiant effort in our schools, are graduating without those fundamental financial literacy skills,” Mr. Lecce said during a press conference at the Toronto Stock Exchange. “This elevates the criteria, it elevates the standard, and forces all of us—educators, government, families and students—to work harder and smarter to elevate that knowledge from theoretical knowledge to practical knowledge that they can apply every day in their lives.”...