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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that he has introduced H.R. 1433, the Student Loan Relief Act.
The legislation will ensure that interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans for undergraduate students do not dramatically increase on July 1 of this year.
Without congressional action, rates are set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
“The one essential element to our nation’s long-term economic success is education,” said Thompson. “If our nation is going to continue producing the world’s best entrepreneurs and innovators, then a college education must be an affordable option for working families. This bill is one important step of many that Congress must take to lower to cost of high-education.”
In 2007, Thompson voted to pass the College Cost Reduction and Access Act which made historic investments in student aid.
The College Cost Reduction and Access Act lowered need-based subsidized Stafford student loan rates from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over a four-year period, easing the burden on thousands of students and their families.
With the lower rate set to expire last year, Thompson helped lead the effort in the 112th Congress to ensure a one-year continuation of the current interest rate. Congress passed legislation extending the lower interest rate though July 1st, 2013.
Now, without congressional action, interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans for undergraduate students will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1st of this year.
The bill co-authored by Thompson would extend the 3.4 percent rate for two years to July 1st, 2015, making student loans more affordable for low- and middle-income students.
If Congress doesn’t act, more than 7 million students will incur an additional $6.3 billion in repayment costs for the academic school year. That means college next year, and every additional year Congress doesn’t act, gets $1,000 more expensive for each student borrower.
Thompson represents California’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma Counties. He is a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Thompson also is a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition and chairs the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Wine Caucus.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Christian Center Preschool will hold its summer program from June 16 through Aug. 22.
The program, held from 8:30 a.m. to noon, is for children ages 3 to 6. The cost is as low as $12 a day .
There will be a lot of fun themed activities throughout the summer.
Come sit by the campfire as they go camping and explore nature, make smores and sing songs around the campfire.
Come relax on the beach and put your toes in the sand, enjoy luaus and shells.
Rumble through the jungle as they spot out the monkeys, lions and tigers.
They’ll even blast off into space on a rocket ship and discover the moon, stars and planets, and much more.
Themes involve arts and crafts, water play and learning. It’s a great review for those going to kindergarten and pre-kindergarten as well.
Daycare is available Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
NCO is accepted.
Call 707-262-5520 for more information or stop by the preschool at 175 C St. to pick up a summer packet and register.
Visit the center online at www.lcchub.com/preschool-daycare or on Facebook, www.facebook.com/lccpreschool .
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Counting this week, we will have eight weeks left in the school year. We’re getting very close so all of you hopeful graduates want to turn in as much work as possible.
It’s time to buckle down and get every little thing done so you can enjoy your summer knowing you gave it your best.
Thanks to student Sabrina Farnan for taking over the job of designing birthday cards for the students at Carlé. Sabrina actually took over this job a while ago, but we wanted to make sure she received the credit that was due to her. Thanks Sabrina.
The T-Shirt contest has come to an end. This is probably Carlé’s most popular contest of the year to participate in. Plenty of Carlé designers, as well as some others that aren’t regular designers, designed and printed their very own Carlé shirts.
Various design ideas came through ranging from simple to very complex, with designs appearing on both the front and back of the shirts. Some of the designers included Lance Thurston, Danielle Stennet, Junior Garcia, Lukas Carlson, Roxie Perdum-White, Chris Stuta and Jesse Harrell.
Carlé’s prom is on it’s way, and so far it is turning out to be a very well planned event. Through student council Carlé as a whole has voted on just about everything to do with the prom and how it will play out.
We’ve voted on the songs, the theme, how much the payment to get in is, and everything in between. Carlé will be self DJing ourselves with music selected by our students. The prom is scheduled for Friday, May 10.
A gigantic thank you to Dr. Barry Munitz. This wonderful man has for five years now donated to Carlé $1,000 each year for the school to make our graduating senior plaques. This man is in no way required to do this for us and we’re very grateful for him to do this for us out of the kindness of his heart. This year we will be having about 25 graduates and Dr. Munitz’s donation really helps us make it special for them.
Student of the Week was Camari Onwuasoeze. Camari is a hard working and passionate student who definitely deserves this privileged award. He’s been at Carlé two years and will be graduating very soon. The staff voted unanimously for Camari this week. Congratulations on this honor.
Lance Thurston and Andrew Subjack have begun to take over as the new students who will run our daily morning bulletin for next year.
Every year and a half new students are trained by the previous students to do all the jobs that make Carlé so special, including running the tech for the bulletin, this article, all the recycling, all new designers for our school-based enterprise and many more jobs that help us be so special. Thanks to all our dedicated students who get the jobs done.
It appears that students Kassandra Colwell and Timothy Mcguire will be the students that this article is handed to after student Jesse Harrell graduates this year.
Jesse Harrell is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Students in the after school program at Upper Lake Elementary have been building LEGO robots with the help of volunteers from the Children's Museum of Art and Science (CMAS).
Students are enjoying the two-hour sessions and are gaining great skills in problem solving while being exposed to basic physics concepts.
The LEGO WeDo kits were purchased by CMAS in order to expose Lake County youth to basic robotics with a fun, hands-on approach.
