Civil Rights Panel Criticizes College-Admissions Plans
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last week blasted the use of "percentage plans" that replace racial preferences in college admissions with guaranteed admission for all students who graduate near the top of their high school classes.
"Race-conscious affirmative action has not brought nearly enough black and Latino students into undergraduate, graduate, or professional higher education programs; the percentage plans will do no better and probably worse," the commission argues in a 10-page statement.
The commission, an independent agency created by Congress, voted 6-2 earlier this month to approve the statement. Every Democratic commissioner voted in favor of it, while Russell G. Redenbaugh, an Independent, and Carl A. Anderson,...
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