Class of 2006
2006
Price of a Gallon of Gas: $2.59
Average In-State CA College Tuition: $5,025.50
Price of a Big Mac: $3.10
What was new in innovation, culture and education?
Nintendo invented the WII, a new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas, a robot learned to ride a bike and somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn't stay wet.
Internet giant Google bought the popular video-sharing website YouTube during October of 2006.
AB 2117 established the English Language Learners Best Practices pilot program and K–12 Proposition 98 funding of $49 billion. Funding per student: $8,238. General Fund support for CDE State Operations: $52 million.