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Junior Achievement seeks three-year MOU with Petersburg schools to expand finance and career programs
Summary
Kelly Geese, CEO of Junior Achievement of Central Virginia, asked the Petersburg school board to approve a three-year memorandum of understanding to expand JA programming—job shadowing, Finance Park, Mission Tomorrow and elementary curriculum—citing local participation and national outcome statistics.
Kelly Geese, chief executive officer of Junior Achievement of Central Virginia, asked the Petersburg City Public Schools board on June 17 to approve a three-year memorandum of understanding to expand JA programs in the district.
"I'm requesting that the school board today approve of the Petersburg public schools and Junior Achievement of Central Virginia to sign a memorandum of understanding to solidify a three-year partnership," Geese said, outlining program options that include job shadowing, a Finance Park budget-simulation experience for high school students, a middle-school career fair (Mission Tomorrow) and elementary-level financial-literacy curriculum.
Geese told the board that JA's central Virginia chapter supports career exposure and workforce-readiness skills; she cited chapter-wide results and local participation numbers, saying more than 32,000 students engaged with JA programs nationally and that 75 Petersburg middle-school students attended Mission Tomorrow last year while about 220 high-school students received JA Finance Park curriculum and some took the field trip to the Finance Park facility.
Board members asked how students are selected for off-site experiences and whether classroom-based entrepreneurship programming (JA Company/Pop-Up) could be expanded. Geese said school selection is handled by each school and that the JA Company program remains an available elementary offering the chapter hopes to revive.
Superintendent Brown and board members indicated support for staff returning with the final memorandum for the board to vote. No final MOU was signed at the June 17 meeting; staff said a formal vote would follow once the MOU and implementation details were provided to the board.
