He supports a Texas program that guarantees every high school graduate in the top 10percentt of any high school class admission to a state college or university.
That included, most prominently, the state's Top Ten Percent program, which uses geography as a proxy for race by assuring every Texas student who graduates in the top tenth of a high school class admission to a state university.
Second, in 2001, the UC implemented Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC), guaranteeing any student in the top four percent of his or her high school class admission to at least one UC school (conditional on completing specified coursework).
General admission is $10 per day, or attendees can opt for the $41 First Class admission which covers all three days and includes a regular lobster meal, drink of choice (beer, wine or soda) and access to the VIP waterfront dining lounge.
Texas' top 10percentt law purports to guarantee Texas students who graduated in the top 10percentt of their high school class admission to any public university in the state.
"We conclude that the fact that an undocumented immigrant's presence in this country violates federal statutes is not itself a sufficient or persuasive basis for denying undocumented immigrants, as a class, admission to the State Bar," the chief justice wrote.
