July 9, 2004

Report Urges Return to Race-Conscious Admissions in Texas

By MICHAEL ARNONE

A new report from affirmative-action advocates in Texas recommends that the state start using some form of race-conscious admissions again.

The suggestion comes as lawmakers in the state consider changes in the state's class-rank plan. The plan -- which was adopted in 1997, a year after a federal court banned affirmative action at the state's colleges -- automatically admits Texas students in the top 10 percent of their high-school classes to any public university in the

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