First Student-Run Postal Credit Union in Minnesota Opens at Tartan High School
Students at Tartan High School will be running a Postal Credit Union branch out of their school store. The new branch's ribbon cutting was held Wednesday morning.
Tartan High School is the home of Minnesota's first student-run Postal Credit Union. On Feb. 20, the representatives of the Postal Credit Union (PCU), Tartan students, school faculty and community members gathered to celebrate the opening the PCU Student Credit Union. This is the third student credit union branch that has opened in a Minnesota high school, but it is the first that will be run by students, said Craig Spreiter, a marketing teacher at the high school. "I don't think there is another branch that is so student-driven," Spreiter said. Spreiter dreamed of a student PCU at the high school since he first joined the teaching staff at Tartan. Four years ago, Platinum Bank in Oakdale installed an ATM, which opened the door to pursue…
