In California, everyone should be able to get ahead through merit, skill, and hard work," Newsom wrote in a press statement. "The California Dream shouldn't be accessible to just a lucky few, which is why we're opening the door to higher education wide enough for everyone, fairly."
Partly because California enrolls the most number of college students out of any state... this legislation is a necessary corrective to last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned all but military colleges from using race as a factor in admissions.
If the Supreme Court decision last year sowed doubt for students that they're wanted on college campuses, this bill aims to reverse that feeling in California and across the country, supporters say, particularly at a time when more high school graduates are skipping out on college.
Public campuses in California don't practice legacy admissions. And state voters in 1996 changed California's constitution to forbid public schools from using race as a factor in admissions.
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