California now requires a one-semester personal finance course to graduate from public high school, starting with the class of 2031. Schools begin offering it in 2027 to 2028. Students who want a head start, or who are taking AP Business with Personal Finance now, can get ahead of it.
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A stand-alone, one-semester personal finance course becomes a graduation requirement for public high school students in the class of 2030 to 2031. Finishing it can also exempt students from the economics semester.
The newest AP course, with the first exam in May 2027. I've mapped all 5 units and 31 topics and built 940 practice questions.
Private schools aren't bound by AB 2927, and many set their own finance and economics courses. We work from whatever your student's school teaches.
Students aiming for top business programs or investment competitions can start corporate finance now: time value of money, valuation, and how companies decide what to invest in. It's the same material I teach college and MBA students.
Schools are building personal finance classes for the first time, so materials and expectations vary. We work from what your student is actually given.
These are the topics students find most foreign, because most have never seen a pay stub or a credit report. We make them concrete.
Sessions run after school and in the evening Pacific time, so they fit around practice and activities.
Parents usually book, and your student joins on Zoom from Atherton, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, or anywhere else in the state. Send me the course, the school, and what's giving your student trouble, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
You walk me through a problem out loud. It usually takes a few minutes to hear where the reasoning goes sideways. We fix that piece and rebuild from there, so you know why each step works.
The real test: a fresh problem with new numbers and different wording, the way a midterm would ask it, and you solve it yourself. I don't complete assignments or hand over answers. You leave able to do the work.
I’m Chi Odogwu. I have a B.S. in Business with a finance specialization from Liberty University, earned summa cum laude in three years, and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis. I tutored IB students in grad school, did valuation and private equity consulting at PwC, taught MBA finance at Florida State, and spent three years as an adjunct professor teaching Business Finance.
Yes. Everything happens on Zoom, so it works anywhere in California, from Atherton, Palo Alto, and San Francisco to Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.
Yes. A few sessions on budgeting, credit, and investing now make the required course much easier later.
No. I work from the teacher's materials and never complete graded work, so sessions support the class instead of replacing it.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
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