Menomonee Falls Teachers Win Grant

From Menomonee Falls School District: Menomonee Falls High School's business department is one of the strongest in the state, complete with a nationally ranked FBLA and Business Academy that runs its own business from design to inventory to sales.

Adding another feather to the cap, the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation awarded business teachers Sara Burling and Lisa Kiefer the Accounting Careers Awareness Grant for 2018. This is the 8th time this team has won this grant.

"We are greatly encouraged by Wisconsin teachers' interest in advancing high school accounting curriculum, networking with CPAs and professors, learning about accounting careers and higher education and encouraging young people to study accounting and become CPAs," said Michael Friedman, president of the WICPA Educational Foundation.

Burling and Keifer will, as a condition of receiving the grant, document their projects and report back to the foundation.

“We are appreciative of the support that the WICPA continues to provide us as educators as well as the funding of the grants to provide our students with so many opportunities,” Burling said.

Forty Wisconsin high school teachers were awarded Accounting Career Awareness Grants by the WICPA Educational Foundation this year. The Foundation has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for local projects that promote accounting as a career and involve interaction with Wisconsin CPAs.

“This grant is going to allow us to give our students an even better opportunity at gaining a skill set that will help them when they move on to college and career,” Kiefer said.

Photo courtesy of Menomonee Falls School District