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California Assembly backs repealing affirmative action ban

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 6:03 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A decades-long push to let California's public universities and government agencies consider race when making admissions and hiring decisions passed its first test Wednesday as more than two-thirds of the state Assembly voted to put the question on the ballot in November.

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