Category «Advocacy»

Update&Action Needed: K-12 Financial Literacy Implementation

From our friends at MassSaves: Recap Midas announced earlier last week that the Massachusetts Senate adopted an amendment to the Senate budget for FY 2020. The amendment was offered by Sen. Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton), and it would establish a new $250,000 grant program to assist in the implementation of the new financial literacy law enacted …

NFTE’s New England Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

  Congratulations to our three finalists who will advance to the final round on June 11th Amanda Braga, New Bedford High School – Founder and CEO of TB Indicator, changing the game for tennis players around the world Shane McConnell, Keefe Tech in Framingham – Founder and CEO of Final Experience, outfitting the rapidly growing niche market …

FREE Statewide Safe Schools Summit May 18!

MTA’s Division of Training & Professional Learning invites members to the Statewide Safe Schools Summit on May 18, 2019, at Grafton High School from 8:30am to 4pm. The summit is free and made possible with a grant from the National Education Association. The Safe Schools Summit is an activism and advocacy conference in which MTA …

2019 National Consumer Protection Week (March 3–9)

From our friends at the FTC: 2/4/2019 blog post National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) 2019 is just around the corner. This year, NCPW is March 3 – 9, 2019. That’s just about a month away, so now is the time to jump into planning. During NCPW, government agencies and consumer protection groups band together to …

True Grit

Step over John Wayne.  After almost ten years of advocating and lobbying by a small group of passionate individuals, with some interchangeable parts, a k-12 financial literacy bill has been signed into law. It will go into effect on April 10th. This bill is as much focused on equity and the importance of quality k-12 …