Students at three Winneshiek County schools are getting a chance to improve their financial literacy

Students Kelly Yost & Karson Deeny got their certifications

Decorah Bank is bringing an interactive financial management program to South Winneshiek High School, Turkey Valley High School and NICC's Rockefeller Alternative High School at no cost to the schools.

The financial literacy course offers programming aimed at teaching, assessing and certifying students in a variety of relevant financial topics including credit scores, insurance, credit cards, student loans, mortgages, taxes, stocks, savings, 401k's and other critical concepts that map to national financial literacy standards. The platform tracks the progress and score of every student and provides students who successfully complete the course with Certification in Financial Literacy.

"Our high school seniors just reached 100 percent participation!  We're ready to award completion certificates," said South Winneshiek High School teacher Renate Hunter.

Rockefeller Alternative High School instructor Dawn Shattuck says students at her school are completing EverFi Financial Literacy Certification as a pre-requisite to Economics, Consumer Math, Personal Management, Personal Finance and Intro to Business.