Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain Inc. (JA) announced today that it has received a $9,917 grant from King Soopers. The funds were raised through King Sooper’s Coin Canister Program, and will be used to support JA programs for K-12th grade students in metro Denver and Northern Colorado.
The check was presented this afternoon to coincide with [...]
This afternoon in the West Foyer of the Colorado State Capitol Building, Governor Bill Ritter signed into law House Bill 1168. This Bill, sponsored by State Representative Rosemary Marshall, requires the State Board of Education to adopt model content standards incorporating financial literacy into existing math curricula. Once this happens, school districts will then be [...]
On Friday, Allstate will team up with Junior Achievement - Rocky Mountain, Inc. (JA) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Denver Branch today to deliver “Ca$h, Cars & Credit” - an innovative financial literacy and life skills program - to 100 local students at the Fed.
In celebration of April as national “Financial [...]
On December 5th and 6th, Mountain Range High School was home to more than just its average daily student population of nearly 1,000 eager 9th - 12th graders. The school hosted Governor Ritter’s statewide dropout summit, officially called the “Colorado Dropout Prevention, Retention and Recovery Summit.” Attendees included representatives from education, government, business and the [...]
What could be sweeter than doing something really fun, learning a lot, and then getting paid for it? That’s exactly what seven enterprising local high school students are experiencing right now, as they reap the rewards for their entrepreneurial efforts put forth during the 2007 JA Business Week.
Business Week is JA’sannual week-long business and [...]