Glen Cove Students Know Personal Finance

Glen Cove High School was recently recognized as a Blue Star school by Working in Support of Education (W!SE), an educational nonprofit promoting financial literacy in teens. 

The award was given based upon students' performance on the 2012-2013 W!SE Financial Literacy Certification Test. This national standardized Test is administered to students after a course or unit on personal finance. Students passing the Test are designated Certified Financially Literate and earn a w!se CFL, demonstrating that they are financially capable when they graduate. 

To earn the Blue Star School recognition, a school, testing 10 or more students, must achieve a 75 percent passing rate on the Test and have either a majority of students on a given grade level take the Test or have the students who took it achieve an average score of 80 percent or higher. 

The Test is administered as part of w!se’s award-winning Financial Literacy Certification program. Schools enrolled in the program teach a course or unit on personal finance, receiving instructional resources from w!se aligned to national and state standards and then administer the Test.

Since its introduction, the program has become integral to personal finance instruction in thousands of classrooms across the United States and is now offered in 30 states. 

Phyllis Frankfort, Founder, President and CEO of w!se commented, “Earning the Blue Star School status is no easy feat. Congratulations to this year’s schools for providing their students with the skills and knowledge necessary to become financially capable young adults.”

Glen Cove High School is among 17 other high schools in Long Island to receive the award and 194 total nationwide.