Increased competition for seats at University of California schools has fueled the outcry over the referendum, Ramakrishnan said. Last year, acceptances for in-state freshmen applicants across the system reached an all-time low — just 63 percent got into one of the UC campuses, compared with 78 percent in 2004, according to state data. Acceptance rates dropped among Asian-American applicants, too, by 9 percentage points from 2004 to 2013… While Poon said she doesn’t believe affirmative action is the answer to educational inequities, she fears that pitting ethnic groups against one another when they need to work together to promote better-funded schools and universal preschool will be problematic.

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by Katy Murphy and Jessica Calefati, The San Jose Mercury News.

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