The 4% Plan

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A proposal before the California Board of Regents would automatically provide state college admittance to the top four percent of every public high school's graduating class. Will it improve diversity or degrade the quality of the state's top two institutions? What can a similar plan in Texas teach us?
DENNIS GALLIGANI: Associate Vice President of Student Academic Services for the Office of the President of the University of California. EVELIN SILVIA: UC DAVIS Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and Enrollment Member of the UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS). KENDRA FOX-DAVIS: A member of UCLA's Affirmative Action Coalition and an administrator for student government. MIKE DELAROCHA: Representative on the UCLA student council and a member of the Affirmative Action Coalition. WILHELMINA DELCO: Former Speaker Pro Tempore of the Texas Assembly, Chair of the Assembly's Education Committee, she is now serving on the Texas Commission on a Representative Student Body. STEPHAN THERNSTROM: Harvard Professor and author of "America in Black and White." CONNIE RICE: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. SUSAN PINKUS: LA Times Pollster HORACE KELLY SANITY TRIAL JURY: SARA CATANIA: LA Weekly staff reporter PETER ARENELLA: UCLA Law Professor

topic: LA TIMES POLL PUTS DAVIS AHEAD

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Host:

Warren Olney

Producer:

Frances Anderton