October 4, 2002
The Texas Test Case: Integrating America's Colleges
The state of Florida recently released the results of Gov. Jeb Bush's 1999 decision to ban affirmative action in admissions in Florida and replace it with a plan that guarantees the top 20 percent of the graduates of every high school admission to a state university. The number of African-American freshmen at the University of Florida dropped from 829 to 659, although the proportion of minority students at public universities has remained largely the same.
Last spring, the Board of
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