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...early release that drew the ire of some commission members, who charged a political motivation in letting damning details out days before the report was set to be voted on by Commission officials. Two, Independent Russell Rendenbaugh and Abigail Thernstrom, the only Republican, spoke out about the report to the New York Times. Redenbaugh said there wasn't any evidence to support the charges of discrimination, while Thernstrom said that she hadn't even seen the report...
...Thernstrom's UCLA data, according to Kidder, was particularly problematic...
Kidder called Thernstrom's study "highly misleading...
...looked at the class just before and just after [Proposition 209]," Kidder said. "The overall number of students in the class increased by 100, but Thernstrom dealt just with numbers, not percentages...
Kidder said his study, which took data from three years before and three years after the institution of Proposition 209, was more comprehensive than Thernstrom...