Class of 2011
2011
Price of a Gallon of Gas: $3.53
Average In-State CA College Tuition: $5,472
Price of a Big Mac: $4.07
What was new in innovation, culture and education?
The world's first synthetic organ transplant was successfully completed in Sweden.
The Occupy Wall Street movement occurred and the US Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was repealed, Steve Jobs passed, Richard Branson opens the first commercial Spaceport.
Alabama becomes the first state "to require public schools to check the immigration status" of students. Though the law does not require schools to prohibit the enrollment nor report the names of undocumented children, opponents nevertheless contend it is unconstitutional based on the Plyler v. Doe ruling.