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What is SCA-5?
SCA 5 is a proposed amendment to the California Constitution to allow
discrimination in public education. If it becomes law, public schools and
universities will be able to discriminate based on race, sex, color,
ethnicity, or national origin to the maximum extent permissible under the
United States Constitution. The California Constitution as it stands today
prohibits the use of any such criteria, a principle established by Prop. 209
passed by Californian voters in 1996.
The proposal of SCA-5 has been passed by the State Senate. If passed by the
California Assembly, the proposal would be presented to Californian voters
in the November election.
What are we against SCA-5?
SCA-5 is targeted against the minority Asian American community in
California (14.9%).
Classifying students based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin undermines the principle that we all should be treated equally under
the law, a cornerstone of the American society.
In the 18 years that Prop. 209 has been in effect, California has become the
most diverse state in the U.S. Nothing in Prop. 209 prevents students of
disadvantaged background from obtaining quality higher education.
Students are already unfairly excluded from schools because of informal
quota based on race. The UC system has “already been violating the spirit
of Prop. 209 by importing obvious surrogates for race into its so-called ‘
holistic’ admissions process.” SCA-5 would make this worse.
Discrimination in college admissions actually harms the intended
beneficiaries, by setting less-prepared applicants up for failure and
hurting their chances at graduation and obtaining a college degree.
Minority graduation rates increased after Prop. 209, according to a study by
Duke University, partly “because of more efficient matching, with the
largest improvements occurring among less-prepared students.”
SCA-5 does not do what is needed to increase the number of black and
Hispanic graduates from California colleges in the long term — increasing
the quality of K-12 education for everyone.
SCA-5 could be used to limit the number of women allowed in California
public universities — in 2010, the UC system admitted 95,403 women and only
84,178 men.
SCA-5 assumes that college admissions are a zero-sum game and does nothing
to solve the root problem of insufficient educational resources — as the
population continues to grow, the state needs more spaces for affordable
college education.
Children who are intelligent and hard-working deserve equal opportunity in
education, regardless of their race. Our national interest is best served
only if the best and the brightest of our children, regardless of their race
, are given equal opportunity to pursue their educational dreams. Only a
merit- based education system will enable our country to maintain its
competitive advantage in the world. |
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