California high school students will soon be required to take a financial literacy course to graduate, thanks to a bill slated to be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom soon.

AB 2927, sponsored by Democratic State Rep. Kevin McCarty and co-authored by a league of bipartisan lawmakers, requires students graduating in the class of 2030-2031 to take a semester-long personal finance course, meaning public high schools and charter schools will be required to offer the course beginning in the 2027-2028 school year.

“We need to help Californians prepare for their financial futures as early as possible. Saving for the future, making investments, and spending wisely are lifelong skills that young adults need to learn before they start their careers, not after,” Newsom said of the effort, per a press release from the Golden State’s official website.

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The release indicated that Newsom, along with Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and NGPF Mission 2030 – a national financial literacy nonprofit – agreed to make the content a requirement for high school graduates in the near future.

McCarty, commenting on the bill’s success, said he is “thrilled” to know the legislation will be signed into law.

“I’m proud to be the lead author on this important policy and help students make smart money decisions that will benefit them throughout their adult lives. I want to thank Next Gen Personal Finance, Governor Newsom, Speaker Rivas, and Senate President pro Tempore McGuire, for their leadership in making this happen,” he said, per ABC 10 in Sacramento.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in New York. Newsom is expected to sign the bill requiring a personal finance course for highschoolers. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

This comes as some findings, including data from a recent WalletHub survey, indicate Gen Z is the least financially confident generation, with 28% expressing a lack of confidence in their ability to manage money, along with a lack of budgeting and a skeptical attitude toward the possibility of homeownership at some point in their lives.

An EverFi survey released in 2022 and cited in ABC 10’s report similarly found that younger Americans are not confident financially, with only 10% of surveyed highschoolers saying they felt “prepared” or “very prepared” to “figure out the full costs of the colleges they were interested in attending.”

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Democratic State Sen. Kevin McCarty sponsored the bill to require high school students to learn personal finance to better prepare themselves for the future. (Fox News)

Less than half of highschoolers felt prepared to fill out the FAFSA – or the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – and only a third believed they could “read and understand loan offers,” the survey said.

Additional findings indicated that less than half of high school students felt confident that they understood how to read a paycheck or felt they could successfully “select, open, and manage” a savings or checking account.

As the “Mrs. Doubtfire” musical returns center stage to San Francisco today, critics are accusing the play of containing “tired, transphobic tropes.”

“Never once did we want to be asking the audience to laugh at the notion of a man putting on a dress,” actor Rob McClure, who plays Daniel Hillard in the live-action production, told SFGate.

“To see them celebrate a story that ends with a guy in drag getting his own children’s television show, they’re giving it a standing ovation, not realizing they’re cheering against their own preconceived biases… In a weird way, they’re showing their hand, that their issue isn’t drag, it’s homophobia. It’s that if the character isn’t gay, they’re not scared of it,” the Tony nominee added. 

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The initial premiere of the musical version of this beloved classic in Seattle was met with outrage from its audience, catapulting 457 offended viewers to sign a petition pushing for the removal of the production in 2019. The petition demands “the tired, transphobic tropes in Mrs. Doubtfire should be left in the past.” 

Inspired by the words of trans theater critic, Brin Solomon, the petition cited the premise of men wearing dresses as a “ridiculous” joke.

“The core premise of the man-in-a-dress joke is that it’s ridiculous and unnatural for a man to wear a dress. Because mainstream society, by and large, thinks of trans women as “men in dresses” instead of women, the man-in-a-dress joke perpetuates the idea that trans women are “unnatural” and fit for ridicule and scorn,” Solomon wrote. 

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A “New York Times” review of the musical brought cause for concern about the potential for the production’s revival to live up to that of the original 1993 film starring Robin Williams. 

The critique read that McClure’s version of Daniel was “more irritating than entertaining” and that the character’s behavior came off as “more creepy than kooky.”

According to SF Gate, McClure will once again be the lead of “Mrs. Doubtfire” in 2024. 

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Robin Williams brooms in a scene from the film “Mrs. Doubtfire,” 1993.  ( 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images)

The comedic classic was set in San Francisco, a fact that remains consistent in the remake, which will also highlight the local landmarks of Steiner Street and the Painted Ladies. 

“The musical language of the show was born out of what’s going on for the kids in the family… [The writers] thought that was an unexplored thing from the film, the real struggle that the family is going through, and the kids’ point of view of that messy divorce was something that could sing beautifully,” McClure said. 

The Broadway production will be at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco throughout the month of July.

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DENVER (KKTV) – A massive fire that tore through two Denver homes Friday may have been due to a mechanical malfunction.

The fire ignited on the side of one of the houses and quickly jumped to the neighboring home, sending a towering plume of smoke up in the air:

Fireworks caused several fires in the Denver metro Thursday night, but sister CBS Denver reports that investigators didn’t have any indication that they were a culprit in the double house fire Friday.

One of the houses was empty — its occupants out of town — while in the other, a family and their dog managed to escape. Neighbors tried to help with water hoses but told CBS Denver the fire got too big too fast.

CBS Denver reports that the homes were heavily damaged; it’s unclear whether one or both is a total loss.

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