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Workshop helps parents teach kids financial skills
By TIMES STAFF
Published September 14, 2007
BEACH PARK Parents can learn to teach their children to be financially savvy at a free workshop. Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central Florida and the Florida Gulf Coast Inc. offers the program, which covers tips such as allowance, kids and credit, and age-appropriate financial skills. Raising a Money Smart Kid is 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at 208 S Hoover Blvd., Suite 200. Reservations are required. Call toll-free, 1-800-740-7040, and select Option 4. Or reserve online at www.cccsfl.org under workshops.e_SClBV.M. YBOR 100 students will get computers About 100 students at the Academy Prep Center of Tampa - a private middle school for low-income kids - will get computers from Computer Mentors Group and Microsoft Corp. on Saturday. The school, which opened in 2003, is proof that poverty doesn't have to be a barrier to achievement. Students' scores exceed their peers in public schools even though most come in with fewer skills, administrators have said. School staffers credit strict achievement and discipline standards and 11-hour school days. The computers will give students access to technology at home that they might otherwise not have.
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