Personal Finance Offer for Appreciation and Innovation

Personal Finance Offer for Appreciation and Innovation

Finance and Mathematics Month is celebrated in the month of April every year. It is said that the basis for a bright future is to develop a family budget and increase your financial knowledge. Let’s work together to use Financial Literacy and Math Month as an opportunity for schools to encourage students and their families to get involved in learning more about their finances. This is not just a celebration but a challenge!

Profiles of Connecticut CTE Personal Finance Educators

3 CTE Teachers at Connecticut High School Receive Standard Challenge Scholarships from the NGPF to Ensure All Students Take a Course in Personal Finance

Palo Alto, California Updated: January 12, 2022 – Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF), a non-profit organization committed to ensuring that all high school students leave high school with the skills needed to thrive in an increasingly complex financial world, is pleased to announce 165 NGPF Gold Standard award recipients Challenge. Together, these schools serve more than 145,000 high school students who will soon graduate with the financial education they deserve.

The NGPF Gold Standard Challenge rewards high schools that commit to ensuring that all students take a personal finance course for one semester before passing graduation. The three Connecticut CTE teachers who led these efforts are Barbara Angelicola Manzulli of Lewis Mills High School, Dan Clement of Somers High School, and Kimberly Laddock of Ellington High School. These three teachers received board approval for a one-semester personal finance course that all students must take with implementation over the next school years.

Read guest posts on the NGPF Blog from Connecticut State Winners’ Teachers. These short posts tell the story of how each beneficiary accomplished the personal finance guarantee in their high school:

Visit personal finance resources for career and technical education

Visit the Connecticut Financial Knowledge Portal

Don’t forget that April is also Math and Statistics Awareness Month!