Colorado high schoolers will now be required to take a personal finance course before graduating. This new requirement was signed into law in May and applies to students graduating after the 2027-2028 school year.

Only about 25% of Colorado school districts required finance courses to graduate when this law was passed, but Denver Public Schools made it a district requirement a few years ago. They began the implementation process in 2022 and showed us what all Colorado students will soon be learning.

"Could you possibly take that $1,000 today, invest it, get some interest built up so that it will be larger than that other original sum?" finance instructor Jason Klimczak asked a group of students.

These are the types of questions students at Thomas Jefferson High School are thinking

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