While the economy is slowly picking up and the unemployment rate has dropped, finding a job in the the education industry can still be tricky. However, one bill may be able to save some teaching positions from the gauntlet. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Durham's Southern High School in North Carolina, in order to promote the federal education job bill, according to News 14 Carolina. Duncan visited the school in order to raise awareness for the $23 billion education job bill, which could save up to 10,000 teaching jobs in North Carolina. The bill is currently stalled in Congress because some politicians say it would add to the federal deficit. However, federal and state leaders say that schools across the country cannot afford more teaching jobs to be cut and are asking citizens to contact their legislators to support the bill, according to the news source. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7% in May and and 431,000 were added to the workforce. Employment in the teaching field is expected to grow by 13% between 2008 and 2018, according to the BLS.  |