Colfax students learn bank literacy

COLFAX - Colfax High School students are learning to balance a checkbook, manage a budget, and how credit works.

The Bank of Eastern Washington is sponsoring Ramsey Solutions' "Foundations in Personal Finance" curriculum for Colfax High School.

Ramsey is a personal finance expert who created the program to teaches students the value of saving, and spending to provide them financial literacy.

"More than five million students have taken Foundations in Personal Finance in middle schools, high schools and universities nationwide. (It) can be used as a resource to fulfill requirements in mathematic...