[freespirited]

Democratic Assemblyman Ed Hernandez, who introduced the bill, says the legislation is needed to address the education gap in California. Currently, the state's black and Latino students trail whites and Asians in college attainment.

Let's put aside any opinions of racial preferences and look logically at this alleged rationale.

Currently, thousands of colleges and universities consider race in their admissions policies. Doing so has not closed the gap in degree attainment, and there is good evidence that it has made it worse. Mismatching students with schools is a recipe for causing them to drop out.

[whence911]

..............and the problem is not with college admissions. It is with substandard student performance and schools in the high school and elementary school level. If this idiot wanted to do something about the education gap he would start there. When hispanics perform better in the lower grades, the college admissions will come.

Also, if we regress back to affirmative action in Cal, Asians will have fewer adnmissions to the UC sustem since they are over represented.