{"id":8156,"date":"2011-09-22T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2011-09-22T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:10:27","slug":"clarksville-montgomery-county-education-foundation-to-be-presented-bank-of-america-workforce-development-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/22\/clarksville-montgomery-county-education-foundation-to-be-presented-bank-of-america-workforce-development-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation to be Presented Bank of America Workforce Development Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-53145\" title=\"Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/educationfoundation-200x137.png\" alt=\"Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; A $5,000 Bank of America grant will be awarded Friday to the Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation to support a program designed to give students a dose of financial reality. The check presentation will be at 2:00pm at Bank of America located at 215 Legion and Second streets.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will fund the \u201cReality Check Program\u201d offered to all CMCSS ninth-graders. Students will be given the opportunity to role-play as a 25-year-old providing sole or primary support of their household. Students will visit 14 stations where they make financial decisions for their household, while staying within a monthly budget.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In accordance with 100% Graduation Project, the Reality Check Program allows students to experience the importance of graduation. Students are assigned careers based on education qualificationsranging from the limitations of a high school dropout to college graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Through its partnership with Bank of America, 100% Graduation, and the Clarksville business community, the Education Foundation is working to inform the community about the importance of everystudent earning a high school diploma, and the connection between graduation and its impact on Clarksville-Montgomery County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; A $5,000 Bank of America grant will be awarded Friday to the Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation to support a program designed to give students a dose of financial reality. The check presentation will be at 2:00pm at Bank of America located at 215 Legion and Second streets. The grant will fund the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[10390,1557,8946,103,1601,5617,1868,10696,1881,6044],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-27y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}