Once again, the Iowa State Treasurer’s Office has partnered with the Center for Student Credit Card Education to bring the ABCs of Credit Card Finance to Iowa. The program is geared towards high school juniors and seniors as well as college freshmen and is designed to teach those students how to wisely choose and responsibly use a credit card. By learning about credit through a structured curriculum, students don’t have to resort to trial-and-error learning on such an important topic.

For 2011, CSCCE has developed a new distribution methodology. The program is now available online at their new website, www.theabcsofcredit.com. The curriculum is offered in two formats. The traditional program, including the student primer, Trainer’s Guide and PowerPoint presentation is available for teachers to download. The program has also been converted to one that is animated and interactive and can be taken independently by students online.

Treasurer Fitzgerald invites teachers and students to participate in this program to assist in improving Iowa’s financial literacy.