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Should financial education be required for WA students?

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

If you’re going to get by in this world, understanding how money works can help a lot. 

Yet, financial education is not a high school graduation requirement in Washington. 

That could change under a new proposal from state lawmakers.

KUOW’s Zaki Hamid talks with UW’s Helen Andrews about why the effort has been so challenging.

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going to get by in this world, understanding how money works can help a lot. Yet financial

0:36.3

education is not a high school graduation requirement

0:39.3

in Washington. That could change under a new proposal from state lawmakers. KUOW's Zeki

0:45.4

Hamid talks with Udub's Helen Andrews about why the effort has been so challenging. But first,

0:51.7

let's get you caught up. You might want to check your freezer. Federal

0:57.5

officials are warning consumers in Washington and five other states to avoid certain ground

1:02.2

beef products after testing found contamination with E. coli. Idaho-based Mountain West Food

1:08.4

Group is recalling nearly 3,000 pounds of grass-fed ground

1:12.8

beef sold under the Forward Farms label with a January 13th use-or-free date. So far, no illnesses

1:20.4

have been reported. Travel note, if you're planning to ride the ferry anytime soon, the

1:26.2

winter sailing schedule is in effect starting this week.

1:29.9

The Seattle-Bremerton route will run a revised winter schedule because of terminal construction.

1:35.2

Among the changes, two Sunday morning sailings are canceled.

1:38.9

The Fontleroy-Roy-Vashon-South route will switch to a two-boat weekend schedule for the winter.

1:45.0

And if you're headed to the San Juan, that route will continue to a two-boat weekend schedule for the winter and if you're headed to the San Juan that route will continue to use the fall schedule and changes for Martin

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