Texas becomes first state to pair financial education with new wealth-building opportunities for every student. Aug 26, 2026, 08:30 ET Through a first-of-its-kind partnership, Invest America and Everfi bring financial education and understanding of 530A Trump Accounts to schools statewide, helping students and families build long-term financial success WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - As a new generation of saving and wealth-building opportunities begins reaching American families, Invest America and Everfi today announced the first statewide initiative designed to ensure students and families have the knowledge and awareness to use them effectively. Beginning in the 2026-27 school year, every elementary, middle, and high school across Texas will have access to financial education resources and information about new savings opportunities designed to help young people build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make informed financial decisions. In addition to financial education, students and families will receive information about new 530A Trump Accounts, including how these accounts can help create opportunities for long-term saving and wealth building. Every American child age 0-17 can claim this federally-established investment account, powered by the U.S. Treasury. Children born in 2025 or later receive $1,000 from the U.S. Treasury to start. For eligible children born between 2016 and 2024, Michael and Susan Dell have committed $6.25 billion through their charitable funds to seed the first 25 million activated accounts with $250 each. Families can check eligibility for their child's account at investamerica.org/dell. "Every child deserves the chance to build a strong financial future, and that starts with making sure families understand the opportunities available to them," said Matt Lira, Executive Director, Invest America. "By bringing financial education into classrooms across Texas, we're helping ensure that new opportunities to save and build wealth don't just exist on paper but actually reach the students and families who stand to benefit most." Through the initiative, students will have the opportunity to build financial knowledge and wealth-building skills matched to their grade level by completing financial education programs from Everfi. Everfi's elementary school curriculum introduces students to foundational financial concepts such as earning, spending, saving, and distinguishing between needs and wants. In the middle school curriculum, students build practical money management skills through budgeting, saving, and financial goal setting. During the high school courses, students learn to apply these concepts to real-world financial decisions involving investing, credit, insurance, debt management, and long-term financial planning. Invest America selected Everfi as its primary provider of in-school financial education for this effort. Through this partnership, educators across Texas will gain access to engaging, age-appropriate resources that help students build financial knowledge and confidence at every stage of learning, from elementary school through high school. In the 2025-26 school year, Everfi reached more than 6.7 million student learners across 7,000 school districts, making it one of the largest financial education providers in the country. This scale, combined with Everfi's research-backed approach to learning and proven ability to activate and support schools nationwide, positions the organization to help bring the initiative to classrooms across Texas and, over time, support the expansion of similar efforts nationwide. "Invest America is leading the way by ensuring every student and family across Texas understands this opportunity and how to act on it," said Ray Martinez, CEO, Everfi. "New financial opportunities only create lasting impact when families understand how to use them. By pairing those opportunities with financial education designed to build knowledge, confidence, and action, this initiative helps students and families turn access into long-term financial success. We're proud to help bring that vision to life statewide." Together, Invest America and Everfi are working to ensure that every student in Texas has the education and resources to understand new opportunities and build lasting financial confidence. The initiative reflects a shared belief that financial opportunity should be paired with the knowledge to use it, and that schools are one of the most powerful places to make that connection. About Invest America Invest America is a national initiative focused on expanding access to long-term savings and investment opportunities for American families. By working with businesses, philanthropists, financial institutions, and community leaders, Invest America helps connect families to investment accounts and resources designed to support financial opportunity and wealth building for future generations. To learn more, visit InvestAmerica.org. About Everfi Since 2008, Everfi has connected businesses to communities by providing essential education that builds trust and drives measurable impact. Using digital and offline resources, the company delivers personal finance and life skills education to millions of learners annually in both K-12 schools and broader communities. Today, hundreds of organizations, including financial institutions, professional sports leagues, and healthcare systems, rely on Everfi to deliver measurable outcomes that benefit learners and drive business impact. To learn more about Everfi, please visit everfi.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or X/Twitter @Everfi. SOURCE Everfi

Preparing students for life beyond the classroom: what's new from Everfi in 2026-27. As schools prepare for a new academic year, educators are looking for digital learning resources that are relevant for students, easy to implement, and meaningful in the classroom. Everfi's latest course and platform enhancements are designed to support that need by helping schools deliver life skills education across personal finance, health and wellness, and entrepreneurship. For the 2026-27 school year, Everfi has introduced updated educational resources and platform improvements that make its programs easier to use, more engaging for students, and more actionable for educators. These updates include refreshed courses, a refreshed Student Dashboard, student achievement badges, and an updated Teacher Dashboard designed to streamline course navigation and class management. Helping students build practical life skills. The updated digital learning resources span several areas that are increasingly important for student success, including financial literacy, health and wellness, entrepreneurship, and platform tools that support student engagement and educator implementation. * FutureSmart(TM): Financial Literacy for Middle School (grades 6 -8) has a new visual design and storyline that puts students at the center of real-world financial decisions, while preserving the course's evidence-based certification showing a positive, statistically significant relationship with students' financial knowledge, self-efficacy, and behaviors. * Vaping: Know the truth(TM)(grades 8-12), updated in strategic partnership with Truth Initiative, the public health organization behind the truth(R) youth tobacco prevention campaign, expands beyond e-cigarettes to cover additional tobacco, nicotine, and cannabis products, with deeper content on brain science, decision-making, and mental health. * Venture - Entrepreneurial Expedition(R)(grades 7-10) has been reimagined with a refreshed visual design and revised content, developed in collaboration with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). The updated course reflects current entrepreneurship best practices and includes a refreshed food truck simulation where students manage costs, pricing, and promotion to run their own business. Making student progress more visible. One of the most meaningful updates for students is Everfi's new Student Dashboard, which simplifies access to coursework, certificates, scholarship opportunities, and other learning resources. The dashboard also includes student achievement badges that allow learners to validate their progress and showcase skills built through Everfi coursework. These badges can be earned by completing multiple courses within a given topic area and comply with the Open Badges standard, allowing students to carry them into digital portfolios, resumes, and college or scholarship applications "As educators, we're always looking for ways to help students recognize their progress and stay engaged in learning," said Christopher C. Chase II, Program Manager, Career & College Readiness, Tacoma Public Schools. "Everfi's student achievement badges give students a meaningful, portable way to see what they've accomplished and share the skills they're building. We're excited to see how these tools can support student motivation and help learners showcase what they've achieved." Supporting educators with easier implementation. Everfi also designed a new Teacher Dashboard experience to streamline course navigation and improve class management. The platform was updated to meet federal ADA accessibility guidelines and is fully mobile-friendly, so teachers can manage classes and monitor student progress from any device. Teachers will find the same functionality they rely on, now in a cleaner, more intuitive experience. For schools, these platform updates help make life skills education easier to bring into the classroom. For students, they create clearer pathways to engage with content, track progress, and recognize the skills they are building along the way. Expanding access to life skills education. The updates build on a year of significant reach for Everfi. During the 2025-26 school year, the company reached more than 6.7 million student learners across 19,000 schools and 7,000 districts, delivering more than 8 million hours of learning. Half of participating schools served low- to moderate-income communities, underscoring Everfi's commitment to expanding access to critical life skills education nationwide. As educators continue to look for ways to prepare students for the decisions they will face in school, work, and life, digital learning resources can help make essential skills education more accessible, engaging, and actionable.