California votes to keep ban on affirmative action

By Nicholas Rowan

Published November 4, 2020 4:06pm ET

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California votes to keep ban on affirmative action — Affirmative action includes the practice by universities of requiring lower test scores for admission of Black students, while requiring higher test scores for White and Asian students. | (PeopleImages/Getty Images)

Californians voted on Tuesday to keep a long-standing affirmative action ban.

The effort to keep the ban won by a wide margin, 56% to 43%, according to the Associated Press.

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