"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."...R. Shaffer

FACT: Teens today are suffering their highest unemployment rate (>26%) since data began being tracked in 1949. 

 
FACT: In the first annual National Financial Capability Challenge just completed, the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Department of Education had a public goal of 1 million high school students taking the Challenge. The final results were 76,000 nationally, which is less than 8% of the stated goal or 92% below the goal. These poor results must not be repeated.

FACT: In the Challenge just completed, only .60% (less than 1%) of Connecticut high school students were given the voluntary quiz by their school.

FACT: Only 16% of Connecticut high schools participated in the Challenge.

The founders of this website have one goal:

To have a personal finance course being taught in every public school in Connecticut, from Kindergarten through High School.

Of Note

CT has made positive progress towards having personal finance courses in high schools in CT. The CT Department of Education states that 80% of CT high schools offer a voluntary personal finance course. This is a 54% increase from 2006, when only 56% of CT high schools offered these courses.

As of May 2010, only 9 of the 174 school districts in CT (5%) have mandated that personal finance must be a requirement for high school graduation. Stated differently, 95% of CT high schools do not require their students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement.