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Trump to Urge Schools to
Ignore Race in Admissions

  • The Trump administration will encourage schools and colleges to adopt race-blind admissions standards, reversing an Obama-era guideline meant to bolster diversity.
  • The Supreme Court has steadily narrowed the ways that schools can consider race when trying to diversify their student bodies. But it has not banned the practice.

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