ACA 7 Aims to Authorize Race Discrimination in K-12 Gifted Programs & College Financial Aid

ACA 7 Aims to Authorize Race Discrimination in K-12 Gifted Programs & College Financial Aid

In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which amended the California Constitution to ban racial preferences and race-based affirmative action. However, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next 20 years scheming on other ways to circumvent the law. By 2020 they offered up a new ballot measure, Proposition 16, which would have overturned Prop. 209. But voters soundly rejected Prop. 16 by 43% to 57%. However, even a…