Repeal of Prop 209 will be on November ballot

In a post about a week ago, we provided a recording of the Regents' endorsing legislative action (not then complete or 100% certain) to put a repeal of Prop 209 on the ballot.* Prop 209 of 1996 banned affirmative action in enrollment decisions at UC and in other state actions. The legislature has now placed the repeal on the November 2020 ballot.

From the Sacramento Bee: California voters will decide in November whether to reinstate affirmative action after lawmakers approved a proposal Wednesday asking them to repeal the 25-year-old law that bans the consideration of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in university admissions, public employment and contracting. In a 30-10 Senate vote, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 secured the necessary two-thirds majority needed to send the measure to repeal Proposition 209 to voters in the Nov. 3 election. Only one Republican, state Sen. Scott Wilk of Santa Clarita, voted for the measure...

Latinos make up nearly 40 percent of the state’s 40 million residents, but represent less than 25 percent of the University of California’s 2019 fall enrollment. About 6 percent of Californians are African American, but at both UC and California State University, 4 percent of students are black. Currently, Asian-Americans represent 15 percent of California’s population, but 16 percent and 33 percent at CSU and UC, respectively.

Asian-American lawmakers have for weeks been divided on ACA 5, though the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus formally endorsed the measure on Monday. They say many of their constituents support affirmative action, but the caucus acknowledged “not all of our communities are yet convinced” on repealing Proposition 209...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article243767857.html
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/06/listen-to-regents-endorse-removing.html