State Farm Insurance supports business at MSU

The school will use part of the money to train high school teachers to teach personal finance classes, which will be required for all Missouri public high school seniors who graduate in 2010 or later.

“The grant will be a huge help to school districts and their teachers, as well as their students, as these workshops are provided to teachers at no cost to them,” said Kent Ragan, head of the school’s finance and general business department, in a news release.

The grant also will support the department’s development of a financial-planning curriculum. The curriculum will satisfy degree requirements and will be considered to become a registered program with the Certified Planner Board of Standards.