{"id":350794,"date":"2026-06-26T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350794\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:12:08","slug":"sales-supports-financial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350794\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Supports Financial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The class doesn\u2019t follow a typical syllabus format but rather pushes students to identify problems that the assigned nonprofit is facing and pursue what they believe is the best solution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis class will challenge your critical thinking skills,\u201d Suki said. \u201cStudents are encouraged to reach out to potential donors and sponsors that can help make their ideas happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW251159639 BCX0 h-align-left\">Working with Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas, students focused on the Finance Park program, which teaches financial literacy to middle and high school students. Through money management simulations, students learn how to manage a budget and make financial decisions that enable a lifetime of success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW251159639 BCX0 h-align-left\">\u201cThe program allows anyone that comes from a first-generation background or someone who didn&#8217;t grow up with a lot of money around them to have the ability to do better going forward,\u201d finance junior Vanshika Dhawan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The class doesn\u2019t follow a typical syllabus format but rather pushes students to identify problems that the assigned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-350794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}