For districts
What your team needs to say yes.
A free course mapped to AB 2927, the evidence behind it, how student data is protected, and help with the rollout if you want it. Built to be forwarded to a cabinet or a curriculum committee.
How it works
Who does what.
Tyler Hensley
Creates and updates the work
The Launchpad, The College Project, the Arcade, and the classroom tools, revised each year for new laws, aid rules, and numbers.
The Finance Lab
Runs it free and protects student data
A California 501(c)(3) that operates The Launchpad and the Arcade at no cost to schools and handles your district's data review.
Your teachers
Teach it
Students join with a class code and password. Teachers get a playbook for every module and a dashboard that shows the shift.
Rollout support from Tyler is optional and separate: readiness sessions, teacher bootcamps, and year-one coaching. See rollout support
Standards
AB 2927, topic by topic
All 13 required topics of Ed Code § 51284.5(a), the modules that teach each one, and a link to try each module without logging in.
See the topic mapCourses
A-G approval
UC approves courses, not curricula. Your district submits its personal finance course through UC's A-G portal, usually as a college-prep elective (area g), and The Launchpad can be the curriculum that course uses. CDE strongly recommends A-G approval for the AB 2927 course but doesn't require it. Planning the A-G submission is part of the Readiness Session.
CDE: personal finance requirementStudent data
Privacy and accessibility
- No student emails or accounts. Students join with a class code, a class password, a first name, and a last initial.
- No ads, and student data is never sold.
- Privacy pack on request from The Finance Lab: its California Student Data Privacy Agreement (CSDPA) posture, the SOPIPA and AB 1584 statement, and its FERPA position.
Evidence
What changed for students.
368
students surveyed in The College Project's research cohort, at a Title I California high school
46.7% → 83.3%
believed they could afford a 4-year public university
17.6% → 69%
believed they could afford a 4-year private university
20 pts
drop in the share of students highly stressed about college costs
Pre-course and post-course surveys from The College Project. These are belief and stress measures, not knowledge measures. The Launchpad measures knowledge directly: matched pre and post questions in every module, plus the Big Three financial literacy questions on the first and last day. Its first cohort runs in fall 2026.
“I’ve used The College Project in my classroom for several years. My students found many of their questions answered in this comprehensive, insightful book.”
“Nobody in my family has gotten this far in education. These chapters made me realize that everyone has a chance to go to college regardless of their background.”
“For once we weren’t being left alone in the dark.”
Start small
A pilot is one teacher, one section, a few weeks.
01
Open the demo
See the teacher dashboard with a sample class. No signup.
02
Start one section
Create a class code and assign one unit to one class for a few weeks.
03
Review the shift
Look at the pre/post results together and decide what comes next.
See it with a sample class.
The teacher demo opens a full dashboard. No signup, no student data.