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...gets into school." But last weekend in San Diego, Clinton warned that plummeting minority enrollments at state schools would "leave it to the private universities to do the public's work." Afterward, when reporters needed a pithy quote from the other side, Connerly was available. As a U.C. regent, he had been sitting on the dais with Clinton. Then Connerly jumped into a plane and flew to Washington to debate Jackson on Meet the Press. "There's nothing like an attack by the President," Connerly says, "to help you get your message...
...schools. "Our high schools graduate black and Hispanic students who are way behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative-action crusaders as Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who led the Proposition 209 campaign, are calling for "outreach": targeted efforts to help minority high school students perform better. "I am in favor of things that will reach out to those families who have never had anyone go to the University of California or go to college," he told...
...programming, Murdoch would be unlikely, if he gains control of the Family Channel, to turn it into a clone of Fox. According to those familiar with his thinking, Robertson, the former minister and presidential candidate, now 67, wants to direct his resources to his religious enterprises, including Regent University, the educational institution he founded in Virginia Beach, Va. The News Corp. deal will give him the wherewithal to do that. "From a programming standpoint, Robertson and Murdoch may be at opposite ends of the spectrum," says Bruce Leichtman, a media analyst with the Yankee Group. "But as a business proposition...
...WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif.--University of California Regent Ward Connerly, who pushed forward the university's affirmative action repeal two years ago, now wants to take names off UC applications before they are processed to mask applicants' race...
...Regent Alice Gonzales, who supports the race and gender preferences repeal, said that she and other board members would have a hard time swallowing Connerly's proposal...