By Thomas Peele and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource, October 29, 2020
California’s 24-year ban on affirmative action has had a staggering impact on underrepresented students seeking admission to the state’s public universities.
On Tuesday, voters will once again consider whether race and gender can be determining factors in college admissions, public-agency hiring and contracting and whether to reverse course in a state where the demographics of its electorate have dramatically changed over the past two decades.
Even if Proposition 16, which would strike the ban from the state constitution, is approved, a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases will shape just what the state’s public universities can do to boost the number of underrepresented students.
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