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...chair of the California Civil RightsInitiative, Connerly is widely credited forplacing the 1996 referendum on the ballot. By anarrow majority, California voters accepted StateProposition 209, which banned the use of immutablecharacteristics like race, gender or nationalorigin in state actions and programs...
...make it easier to sell their constituencies the parts that are hard to swallow." The real test, though, will be selling the compromise to communities that have been at war for three decades: Whatever agreement the politicians reach by Thursday will be put to the vote in a referendum late...
...focus of the discussion was Tuesday's announcement that admissions of black and Hispanic applicants for next fall's first-year class atCalifornia's most competitive public schools hasfallen considerably. Many attribute these figuresto Proposition 209, a referendum passed inNovember 1996 that banned consideration of race,ethnicity and sex in the public sector...
Four months after the "Great Grape Referendum" attracted nationwide attention and ignited a flurry of campus activism, the fight to improve working conditions on fruit farms was again the subject of discussion last night...
...said that the voice of the workers was noticeably absent from last fall's grape debate and their voice was "sorely needed in discourse about the grape referendum...