Junior Achievement Course To Reach Tennessee Public High Schools

Memphis, TN, October 17, 2026 —

An opinion piece in The Daily Memphian has drawn attention to Tennessee’s high personal bankruptcy rate while introducing a free financial literacy course from Junior Achievement that is being offered to public high schools across the state, including schools in Memphis.

The course is presented as an effort to address the financial challenges highlighted in the piece. The trend summary does not provide the state’s bankruptcy rate, figures or the period covered by the comparison, so the scale of the issue cannot be quantified from the information available.

The summary also does not specify the course’s curriculum, when it will be offered, how schools can participate or whether any schools have already adopted it. Junior Achievement is identified as the organization providing the course, and the offering is described as free and available to all public high schools in Tennessee.

The piece is characterized as opinion, rather than a report presenting detailed data about bankruptcy or the course’s results. No evidence about the program’s effectiveness is included in the summary. The course’s stated purpose is to combat the problem highlighted by the opinion piece, but the available information does not establish whether it has changed financial outcomes for students or households.

Further details—including the bankruptcy rate cited, the course’s content and its implementation timeline—were not provided. The information available establishes the broad scope of the offering and its connection to concerns about personal bankruptcy, but does not provide enough detail to assess the program’s reach or impact.

Story summarized from the original created by opinion@dailymemphian.com (Leigh Mansberg) on dailymemphian.com, see more information here.