Word: access
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush's "affirmative access" plan is catching on around the country. California, which, like Texas, no longer uses affirmative action, adopted a class-rank plan last year, while public college leaders in Florida approved a top-20-percent policy under Governor Jeb Bush in late February...
...Bush's "affirmative access" replacement for the Democrats' bread-and-butter affirmative action remains untested on the national level...
...Clinton-Gore program is much more conservative than earlier Democratic programs in that it does not make a high priority of keeping access to college open for low income and working class students," Orfield wrote. "The social class gaps in college access and completion of broadened substantially in the last two decades...
Continued support for student aid access is a "top priority on any list," he says, emphasizing the importance Harvard places on its need-based financial aid program...
...Preserving access is really a key," Casey says...