ACA-7 passed the state Assembly in September and sits before the Democrat-controlled Senate. If approved there, it would be put before voters this November.
The bill would effectively allow the governor to circumvent the state’s longstanding ban on racial preferences first passed by a majority of voters in 1996 with Proposition 209 and reaffirmed in a 2020 referendum.
The measure would allow the governor to use the state’s coffers to fund research-based or culturally specific programs if they increase the “life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.”
Calif. Assemblymember Corey Jackson, who sponsored the bill, stated in a news release his proposal would address “systemic disparities” and “create positive change and improve outcomes for those disproportionately affected by systemic racism and discrimination.”
But in practical terms, it could pave the way for free tuition for black students and other perceived marginalized communities, said Gail Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor who leads the No on ACA-7 effort.
If race blind admissions laws hurt admissions rate for minorities, wouldn't the solution be to better prepare minorities for college? We need to focus on the root causes for minorities not scoring well on admission criteria.
Do you know that 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard got in through legacy, sons/daughters of donors/faculty or through affluent sports like Squash and Lacrosse? Does this seem like merit to you?
Onerous as it is, legacy admission to college is no more offensive than demanding millions because one's great-great-great ancestors were enslaved by their own people.
@SteadfastJerkyGreen1yr1Y
An elementary teacher friend of my wife's started her career in East Oakland at a predominantly black elementary school. She had great hopes for the impact she could have. As a white teacher she was told repeatedly that she shouldn't be teaching black kids and when, after seven years, the threats of violence from students reached the point where the teachers had to be escorted to their cars at the end of the day, she left.
Better be careful here, you're about to be labeled a bigot.
To prepare minorities for college (and success) would need an admission by the "Progressive" Left that culture (or lack of) is the primary driver for failure in our inner cities, not poverty. Until we begin to address the culture, no amount of Affirmative Action and DEI will bring lasting success.
how about school choice which a large amount of minorities support but the teachers unions and dems hate.
Attempting to address racial discrepancies at the level of higher education was always a lost cause. It attempts to correct a poorly constructed building beginning with the roof. The whole educational system is broken from the start by forcing poor students to stay in schools that fail completely to educate their students throughout their lives. Fix elementary and high school education and higher education without affirmative action will take of itself.
@CowSidLibertarian1yr1Y
@SugarySnailGreen1yr1Y
If they just made this a bill to provide it to people in poverty they would be on the right track.
Pretty sure a rich black kid does not need free college but a poor black, brown, asian, or white kid might.
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@9JZF6381yr1Y
Why are we accepting people based on race and not qualifications? That is unfair.
Including the ones that just crossed the border?
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