The Budget Challenge Blog

New Jersey has some of most rigorous financial literacy standards of any state requiring students to apply their knowledge. Budget Challenge meets every standard.

Texas set a high bar for a financial literacy elective class. Guess what program exceeds it?

At Budget Challenge we know that Covid-19 stressed already tight school budgets making it difficult for some schools to purchase our program. The good news is that help is on the way! The new $900 billion federal Covid-19 relief bill signed into law December 27 provided $54.3 billion in new federal funds for public K-12 schools and $2.75 billion for private schools. This is in addition to the previous CARES Act ESSER dollars. This received virtually no media coverage because so much attention was focused on the size of stimulus payments to individuals and whether the president would sign the bill into law.