January 23, 2004

Texas' 10-Percent Plan: the Truth Behind the Numbers

By MARTA TIENDA and SUNNY NIU

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution permits colleges to have race-conscious admissions policies, many people in Texas are calling for the Legislature to rescind or modify HB 588, known as the "top 10 percent" law. Enacted in 1997 in response to the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in Hopwood v. Texas, banning race-sensitive admissions, the law has guaranteed that all Texas students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their public

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