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Students press for financial-literacy graduation requirement, propose freight farm; district explores options
Summary
Student speakers asked the board to require financial-literacy coursework for graduation and proposed a shipping-container "freight farm" to provide year-round produce and hands-on STEM; district staff said financial-management coursework is being contemplated and encouraged further planning on the freight-farm idea.
NISKAYUNA, N.Y. — Student board representatives told the Niskayuna Central School District Board of Education on Jan. 28 that the district should consider making financial literacy a graduation requirement and described a student-led proposal to install a shipping-container hydroponic "freight farm" at the high school.
On financial literacy, a student speaker urged the board to require coursework that teaches practical money skills: filing taxes, bank accounts, budgeting and other personal-finance topics. District staff responding in the meeting said the topic has been raised previously and that the leadership team has it on a program-review timeline; one administrator told the board a course in student financial management is being contemplated as part of a business-department program…
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