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Volume 45 Issue 5
Upcoming Events April 5 King vs. Jesuit @ Ryan 6:00 pm
April 6 King vs. Fisher @Fisher 12:00pm
April 7 Fine Arts Festival @4:00 pm
April 10 Track EastBank Championships @ E.J. 4:00pm
April 10 Spring Showcase
April 11-13 MAO Convention
April 11-16 STUCO officer voting
April 13 ACT
April 16 King vs Rummel @Bonnabel 7:00pm
April 17 Last pep rally
April 17-18 Class officers announced
April 18-22 Spring Break No School
Friday, April 5, 2013
Louisiana Festivals
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Obama plans to increase minimum wage By Linda Lin
wage has stirred up supporting opinions from employees and employers as well as opposing opinion. When the minimum wage goes up, employers may attempt to either pass President Barack Obama has proposed a gradual increase in the minimum costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices, or cut costs elsewhere, wage to $9.00 by 2015. such as quality of service. Louisiana relies heavily on customer service, especially the New Orleans In fact, a hike in the minimum wage could cause a reversal effect. area, which averaged about $2,148,176,000 According to analysis of a study in accommodation and food services sales from economists at Trinity according to the 2007 census. Despite the University and Miami University, 2 8 . 3 $3 high sale rates, many service employees earn an estimated 7,200 jobs were lost ax eT minimum wage and some earn even less. For for Maryland teens between 2005 om Me c n dic lI ra are example, waiters are paid $2.13 an hour along and 2011 due to federal minimum de e -$ F 6.1 3 with the tips they receive. wage increases during that time According to U.S. Department of Health period. 04 and Human Services, an individual that makes Whether the rise of minimum . S 5 tate $3 Inco yme T urit an annual wage results in a positive c e a x S - $8 ial .88 Soc salary of outcome or negative outcome, the History of minimum $ 1 1 , 4 9 0 economic seesaw will be unstable a year is for the next decade according to Eric Sheu wage considered Students may be surprised when they receive their first paycheck. The experts at Miami University. to be in government deductions may range from 15 to 25 percent. “It would be miserable to live 1938 Minimum poverty by off of minimum wage. It’ll be wage set to $0.10/gal. of federal standards. An employee working hard to pay for essentials like food and clothes,â€? junior Jessica Foret said. $0.25/hour gas 40 hours a week, earning minimum wage, and takes no vacation will receive about $11,310 after deductions, which falls below the poverty line. The state is categorized as one of the top ten states with the highest poverty rate, with a poverty cameras to be installed in schools. By Jessie Chen rate of 32.3 percent. With 1,192 students currently Managing Editor The raise of minimum wage enrolled, the proposed bill will 1968 Minimum will heavily impact students at In December, Jefferson Parish allow 64 security cameras to be wage set to $0.34/gal. of King. Many students work partSchool Board voted to spend installed around the school campus. $1.60/hour gas time jobs and are often paid almost $5 million to install over These cameras will be monitored by minimum wage. 2,000 security cameras throughout WKH -HIIHUVRQ 3DULVK 6KHULIIÂśV 2IÂż FH Senior Andres Arauz said that the district schools along with other all hours of the day, every single being a senior in high school, the aspects of security such as fences day of the year. raise of minimum wage would and buzzer systems by 2015. Other high schools around the be very helpful in paying for The budget will allocate $1.6 district will have cameras too. college. million for tightening security Riverdale High School will have 50 What many students working measures such as every school cameras and West Jefferson High IRU WKH Âż UVW WLPH PD\ QRW FRQVLGHU having a single entry point and School will have 64 cameras. 1997 Minimum is the amount that is taken out of repairing the fencing. “The “Each improvement made to $1.20/gal. of wage set to their paycheck. Even though one hope is that we can provide a secure our campus adds another gas $5.15/hour may have earned $10 an hour safe environment for our school layer of protection creating a much lifeguarding this summer, the community,â€? Principal Meg Griffon more positive school climate,â€? government will subtract Social 2010 State said. Griffon said. “Teachers, students Security, Medicare, Federal Income $2.78/gal. minimum The plan will be implemented and administrators alike will feel Tax and State Income Tax from the of gas wage set in three phases. Grace King is part more at ease, giving us the ability paycheck. This leaves the person above of Phase One. Enrollment will to concentrate on teaching and with less in their pocket than what federal level determine the number of security learning, rather than fear.â€? they actually earned. Source: U.S. Department of Labor This possible raise of minimum Busines Manager
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King receives grants from NSF for new AP courses and in use for a long time. All of the courses in this FXUULFXOXP DUH GHVLJQHG E\ TXDOLÂż HG VHFRQGDU\ Staff Writer school teachers and college professors that teach the introductory college classes. The only way to In the upcoming school year, many Advanced get college credit for an AP course is to pass the Placement (AP) classes such as Biology, Chemistry AP exam with at least a 3. and Calculus will be offered to students. Students “The richness of the content is enough even if who take AP courses can gain college credit in students don’t get credit for an AP course. It’s still their high school career. better to take it,â€? Kirk Steen said. The content of The AP curriculum has been under development AP classes promotes critical thinking which helps prepare students for university level education. As part of a Math and Science $$# (#% " ( Initiative, King $"' ')& " ( was selected to participate in a #( & ( " ) program by Mass "#) %!# " &) Insight Education "" #&! # !# to increase Source: Collegeboard.org performance in AP By Samah Hammad
Average scores of most popular AP courses
courses. AP Chemistry, a revived course to Grace King, will be offered in the upcoming school year. The National Science Foundation (NSF) wrote a $10,000 grant for this class, which will be dispersed over a 4-year period. In this time period, the money will aid in buying supplies and materials for the science lab, and training for the teacher. Bonnabel Magnet Academy, John Ehret, and Helen Cox will also be participating in this grant. Although there will be new classes, the order of science classes that students will take is still the same. For freshman year, students are expected to take Physical Science and Biology. For sophomore year, AP Biology is offered. For junior and senior year, Chemistry and AP Chemistry are available. Assistant principal Sharon Thomas encourages students to take as many AP classes as they can. “I think AP courses will help students succeed in college, and I want to offer as many AP courses as we can get.�