The Magnetar Capital UChicago Financial Education Initiative launched finEDge, a single-semester program designed to prepare high school students to navigate financial decisions with confidence.

In Richland School District 2 in South Carolina, a software program automatically tracks dozens of factors related to student performance, attendance and behavior; it updates risk levels for every student monthly. Every time someone tries to get or keep that child on track, it's logged.

Mario Basora, who has been superintendent at Yellow Springs schools for nine years, has been chosen by the Huber Heights school district. He replaces Susan Gunnell, who will retire after 35 years in the district, the last seven as superintendent.

In a bid to increase funding put in place last year for school safety, Gov. Bill Lee is asking for another $30 million to be placed into the school safety grant fund for the nearly 500 schools that do not have a campus resource officer.