{"id":1736,"date":"2017-08-16T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/franklin\/?page_id=1736"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:16:04","slug":"j-a-biztown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/programs\/j-a-biztown\/","title":{"rendered":"J.A. Biztown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1726\" src=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/06\/JA-Biztown-logo-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/06\/JA-Biztown-logo-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/06\/JA-Biztown-logo.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Elementary school students aren&#8217;t old enough to drive, work, vote or be the boss.\u00a0 At JA BizTown they are!\u00a0 Students operate a bank, restaurant, city hall, newspaper, retail store and 10 other businesses.\u00a0 JA BizTown\u00ae combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a fully interactive, simulated town. Students leave understanding the relationship between what they learn in school and their participation in a local economy.<\/p>\n<p>JA BizTown is correlated to Common Core Standards and Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. JA BizTown is proven to advance students&#8217; knowledge, skill, attitude, and achievement.<\/p>\n<p>At JA BizTown, students learn about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entrepreneurship<\/li>\n<li>Goods and services<\/li>\n<li>Resources<\/li>\n<li>Producers and consumers<\/li>\n<li>Scarcity<\/li>\n<li>Supply and demand<\/li>\n<li>Opportunity costs<\/li>\n<li>Taxes<\/li>\n<li>Spending and saving<\/li>\n<li>Financial institutions and banking concepts<\/li>\n<li>Write a resume<\/li>\n<li>Apply for jobs<\/li>\n<li>Produce goods and services<\/li>\n<li>Spend money<\/li>\n<li>Become part of a business team and create a business plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elementary school students aren&#8217;t old enough to drive, work, vote or be the boss.\u00a0 At JA BizTown they are!\u00a0 Students operate a bank, restaurant, city hall, newspaper, retail store and 10 other businesses.\u00a0 JA BizTown\u00ae combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a fully interactive, simulated town. Students leave understanding the relationship between what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1736","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1736\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}