What is the Problem? High school students are graduating without essential financial literacy skills, leaving them unprepared to navigate adulthood successfully. Many teens don't know how to budget, save, manage credit, or invest, which can lead to debt, poor financial decisions, and long-term financial instability. The lack of financial education in schools fails to prepare students for real-world challenges, perpetuating a cycle of financial insecurity. What Action Could Be Taken? Mandate financial literacy education as a semester-long course in all high schools across Washington State. The course should cover critical topics such as budgeting, saving, credit management, taxes, and investing. This program can be modeled after successful initiatives like Utah’s General Financial Literacy course, which has significantly improved financial behaviors among students. State lawmakers, education boards, and officials, such as the Superintendent of Public Instruction, can introduce legislation or curriculum changes to make financial literacy education a requirement for high school graduation. Allocating resources and prioritizing financial literacy as part of the curriculum is essential to achieving this. Why Is It Important? Financial literacy is a life skill that impacts every individual. Without it, young adults are more likely to fall into debt, struggle with financial planning, and face economic hardships. Preparing students with these skills before they graduate will: • Reduce student debt and financial mismanagement. • Empower teens to make informed decisions about their financial futures. • Foster long-term financial stability for individuals and communities. This change will create a generation of financially responsible and independent young adults who are equipped to contribute positively to society. Why Should Others Join This Campaign? Everyone benefits from a financially literate society. Parents want their children to succeed, educators want to prepare students for the real world, and communities thrive when individuals are financially stable. Joining this campaign means advocating for a future where young adults are empowered, confident, and capable of managing their finances. By supporting this initiative, you are helping to ensure that no student enters adulthood without the tools they need to succeed. Together, we can make financial literacy education a priority and create lasting change for future generations. 

This is important because by auctioning off items and making a profit, you force teachers to continue to purchase school supplies out of their own pockets. A study showed that teachers spend an average of $300 on school supplies. These supplies could be free to them if the salvage unit was reopened and made available to them. 

Rum River Elementary is the only school in our district with this large of an impact to our students. There is one other elementary school where students are in two different middle school attendance boundaries, and it is divided approximately 60% to Oak View Middle School and 40% to Coon Rapids Middle School, far less disjoined than our 92/8 separation.  Moving schools during middle school can have a significant negative impact on a student, often leading to emotional stress, social disruption, potential academic setbacks, and challenges with forming new relationships, as they are at a crucial developmental stage where peer connections are vital and adapting to new environments can be difficult; this can manifest as anxiety, sadness, feelings of isolation, and decreased academic engagement.  This is supported through research and best practice findings by multiple reputable organizations including U.S. Department of Education.  Considering property taxes associated with living in this location, we would hope priority would be given to attending the schools we fund.  We are currently in the process of gathering data from the school district to gain further clarity on the balance of in-district transfers vs out of district open enrollment.  When evaluating all of the information we cannot see where the risks outweigh the benefits of having this very small student population be allowed to permanently attend Oak View Middle School and Andover High School (not through in-district transfer).  

FSW EMS program needs Megan Davis to be successful 

Former students, colleagues, friends, family and current residents of West New York, New Jersey, please join us in petitioning the West New York Board of Education to rename Public School #3 in honor of one of West New York's greatest teachers, Darcie Eckert Valencei.

Senn High school should promote inclusion and acceptance for all students. Yet, this year they decided to hold homecoming on the highest of holy days for the Jewish community. Sign our letter to Principal Holly Dacres to ensure that for all future school events, the Senn administration will commit to reviewing the interfaith calendar to ensure equal opportunities for all students. 

Let’s show the administration that we care! 

This teacher was an amazing teacher who made all students feel welcome and safe in their classroom. 

We need to make the school understand that yes, rules are there to keep us safe but with the safety hazards we're not safe. 

It’s important because we pay entirely way too much money to only have a certain amount of hours to have friends over. 

This is important because we want to make sure we have the most effective day at school without our emotions getting to us. We all value the quality of our shows very much and we all have a lot going on in the first week of school. We hate to see our classmates upset, and we want to avoid that as much as possible at school. 

For the safety of students.