4 States Named as New Targets in Affirmative-Action Fight

Autor/in	Schmidt, Peter
Titel	4 States Named as New Targets in Affirmative-Action Fight
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 35, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Affirmative Action; Activism; Public Colleges; College Admission; Civil Rights; Political Campaigns; Arizona; Colorado; Missouri; Oklahoma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht
Abstract	Critics of affirmative action announced last week efforts to get bans on racial and ethnic preferences on the ballots in four states--Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma--as part of a plan to thrust the issue into the national spotlight in the November 2008 elections. Ward Connerly, the prominent anti-affirmative-action activist who played a key role in the successful campaigns for similar measures in California in 1996, Washington State in 1998, and Michigan last fall, is advising the newly formed state campaign organizations and was on hand for each of last week's announcements. In all four of the states where press conferences were held last week, the proposed ballot measures have essentially the same wording. Their key operative clause reads: "The state shall not discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." The state groups set up to campaign for the measures all have the words "Civil Rights Initiative" in their names. The organizations formed to direct the preference-ban campaigns must still gather enough petition signatures to get the measures on the ballots, and several civil-rights organizations are mobilizing efforts to battle the proposed ballot measures. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10