c*****r
发帖数: 8227 | 1 水星报的标题。
California affirmative action challenge is dead
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25361339/california-aff
A bill that would have let California voters reconsider the state's 16-year-
old ban on race-conscious college admissions is off the table, its author
announced on Monday.
Constitutional Amendment 5 passed the state Senate in late January on a
party-line vote but ran into an unexpected wave of resistance -- mostly,
from Asian-Americans concerned that affirmative action policies would
unfairly disadvantage Asian applicants to the intensely competitive
University of California system.
A Change.org petition to stop the referendum had more than 112,000
signatures on Monday.
After an about-face by three Asian-American senators who voted for the bill
in January, Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, is putting put the bill on
hold and will amend it to address some of those concerns, his office said.
"We know that we don't have the votes if we continue this way," said
Hernandez's communications director, Janet Chin.
Chin said the senator planned to form a joint legislative committee to hold
hearings up and down the state.
It will likely get an earful. Last week, saying they had received thousands
of calls and emails from constituents, Senators Leland Yee, D-San Francisco;
Ted Lieu, D-Torrance; and Carol Liu, D- La Cañada/Flintridge asked
Assembly Speaker John Perez to stop the bill from advancing any further.
"As lifelong advocates for the Asian-American and other communities, we
would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our
children," their letter states.
In 1996, California became the first state to outlaw affirmative action in
public university admissions and state hiring, a policy that took effect in
1998. The amendment would have allowed voters to lift that ban, either this
fall or in 2016.
Some Asian-American policy experts and observers said misinformation about
what affirmative action would mean -- such as racial quotas for students --
spread quickly, stoking parents' fears about their children's chances
getting into UC, the state's public research university system.
Asian-Americans make up about 38 percent of UC undergraduates and have a
high rate of freshman admission to its nine undergraduate campuses -- 73
percent in 2013, compared to 63 percent of all in-state applicants.
The use of racial quotas in admissions would be unconstitutional; recent U.S
. Supreme Court decisions have held that any consideration of race in public
university admissions must be narrowly justified. UC officials say they
didn't use them before the affirmative action ban.
Still, some Chinese-language news outlets reported such erroneous assertions
, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political-science professor at UC Riverside
who directs the National Asian-American Survey.
"I think there's a lot of anxiety and fear, and when you have bad
information it's hard to address some of those concerns," he said.
Some in the Asian-American community, which has historically supported
affirmative action policies, still believe race should be considered in
college admissions. Today, while some Asian groups -- including the
Southeast Asian Resource and Action Center -- are backing the move to
overturn California's affirmative action ban, the scarcity of seats in UC
has provoked intense opposition among others.
"In the end," Chin said, "the most important thing for the senator is to
make sure we get as many eligible students access to higher education."
Reporter Jessica Calefati contributed to this story. Follow Katy Murphy at
Twitter.com/katymurphy. | c*****r
发帖数: 8227 | 2 这篇的作者简直就是哀号。
不过，临死也不忘咬一口，可恶！ | k****m
发帖数: 4670 | 3 如果等选举过后
民主党还是大多数强
在换个名字，或者修改个皮毛
简简单单再通过参议院
要知道H君不是第一次提这个东东
他还会再提的 | j*****3
发帖数: 654 | 4 "In the end," Chin said, "the most important thing for the senator is to
make sure we get as many eligible students access to higher education."
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Then why he wants to change Prop209?
We should ask him exact what he sees in the current system fail to "get as
many eligible students access to higher education", has any latino or black
students been denied admission because of their skin color? Can he give even
one example? | a******d
发帖数: 191 | 5 eligible students. That's why he said. And by eligible, he meant all the
other people based on skin cooler (excluding Asian of course) other than the
qualified Asians based on merit. |
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