Adjusted for inflation, the earnings gap between high school and college graduates has risen nearly 70 percent since 1980. PSC delegates were instrumental in strengthening resolutions for the inclusion of professional staff in the resolution on distance education and added its support to the growing student movement to support labor organizing against sweatshops.
Teachers can expect to lose more ground over their careers.
In Vermont, one out of five principals has retired or resigned. Two years after California voted to end bilingual education and forced a million Spanish-speaking children to immerse themselves in English, those students' standardized test scores have improved, sometimes at striking rates. However, other factors may be contributing to the rising scores as well, such as the reduction of class size in the second grade over this same period of time. This three year old program is being watched carefully. Students learned about the present by singing the freedom songs of the past.