Millions of DWP benefit claimants could get £1,560 pay if High Court case succeeds
OVER two million people could each receive a benefit backpay of £1,560 depending on the decision of a pending High Court case against the Department of Work and Pensions. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
EU warned: Either Italy succeeds or Brussels bloc faces ‘threat of crises like 2011’
ITALY’s success in managing the biggest share of the EU’s Recovery Fund will be the litmus test for the future of the eurozone, it has been claimed. Daily Express :: World Feed
Eurogroup president elected: Portugal finance minister Mário Centeno succeeds Dijsselbloem
PORTUGAL’S finance minister, Mário Centeno will be the next president of the Eurogroup after receiving a majority vote from his 18 eurozone counterparts in Brussels on Monday. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Keothavong succeeds Judy Murray as Britain Fed Cup captain (Yahoo Sports)
LONDON (AP) — Former tour player Anne Keothavong has been chosen to succeed Judy Murray as captain of Britain’s Fed Cup team. Yahoo Sports – Tennis News
Julia Steiny: Why the Every Student Succeeds Act Will Never Work
By Julia Steiny Given the battlefield that is our current Congress, congratulations to them are in order for agreeing on anything. Together, miraculously, they revamped the old 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB was loathed from the get-go. It was a set-up for failure, since it was and is still statistically impossible to […]
Senate Approves Every Student Succeeds Act, Obama to Sign
In a bipartisan 85-12 vote today, the United States Senate has approved the Every Student Succeeds Act — the replacement for No Child Left Behind, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — in the ESEA’s first overhaul in over a decade. The Senate’s approval comes after the House of Representatives voted 359-64 […]
House Passes Every Student Succeeds Act to Overhaul NCLB
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that will revise the controversial No Child Left Behind law and end the era in which the federal government patrolled public school achievement. ESSA will restore control to the individual states and local districts, writes Emmarie Huetteman and Mokoto Rich of The New […]