Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago

Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago

Victor Landa August 24, 2017

Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago, according to a New […]

Supreme Court Takes One Affirmative Action Step Forward After Many Steps Back

NewsTaco June 29, 2016

*Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action was great, but it’s a first step on a long road back. What more can be done? VL By Al Kauffman, NewsTaco […]

SCOTUS Upholds Use of Race in Texas College Admissions

NewsTaco June 24, 2016

*The supreme court ruling on affirmative action was  a surprise. Diversity is still a goal in higher education, and race (Latino race?) is still a factor in achieving that goal. […]

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds UT-Austin’s Affirmative Action System

NewsTaco June 23, 2016

*There was a good news and not so good news today from the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the good news, and this is a good explanation of what happened. […]

Sotomayor accuses colleagues of trying to ‘wish away’ racial inequality

NewsTaco April 25, 2016

*Justice Sonia Sotomayor went to the mat to counter Justice Roberts’ well known adage that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on […]

How an Attempt to Boost Diversity at Texas Colleges Could Kill Affirmative Action

NewsTaco March 29, 2016

*Excellent story about the affirmative action lawsuit now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was heard in December and a ruling is expected by June. This is an outlier […]

The Supreme Court Minus Scalia, a case breakdown

NewsTaco February 15, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (5.5 minute read) The big news over the weekend is the passing of Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Justice Antonin Scalia. There’s been a relentless stream of reports […]

Analysis: Texas narrowly defends one-man, one-vote apportionment stance before Supreme Court

NewsTaco December 9, 2015

*After yesterday’s epic day at the U.S. Supreme Court where the concept of one-man, one-vote was challenged by a well organized group of extreme right-wing activists, that same group returned […]

Affirmative Action at UT and Beyond at Stake in Court Case

NewsTaco December 8, 2015

*Today’s big case at the Supreme Court is the Evenwel v Abbott suit, where the  one-man, one-vote concept is at stake. Tomorrow won’t be any less important. The issue of […]

Supreme Court will reconsider Affirmative Action Case

NewsTaco June 29, 2015

*It may be a good thing that this is happening, in Texas specifically, because it uncovers another nagging problem. The University of Texas has a 10 percent rule, where the […]