Thursday, October 6, 2011

Calif. Gov. Weighs Bill Challenging Ban on Affirmative Action

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
By Nicholas Riccardi and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times (MCT)

In the next 10 days, Gov. Jerry Brown must decide whether to sign a bill that could put race and gender back into the admissions process at California's public universities 15 years after the state's voters banned affirmative action.

The proposed law would allow the University of California and California State University systems to "consider" applicants' race, gender and household income to diversify student bodies. The author says he crafted it to avoid conflict with Proposition 209, the ballot measure voters passed in 1996 that prohibited preferential treatment of minority groups by the state.

But Proposition 209's backers contend that the measure now before Brown is a clear attempt to undermine the law and say they will sue to overturn it if...



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