61.   Students in California plan to launch a petition drive for a state initiative that would allow race and ethnicity to be considered in admissions to public colleges and universities.

62.   That includes the public college system, too, and it includes public support for poor kids who choose private colleges.

63.   That ruling has been interpreted to mean that race can no longer be considered in admissions and financial aid decisions at public colleges in Texas.

64.   The aim, they say, is to free public colleges from excess regulation and to encourage innovation.

65.   The ban also applies to cities, counties, public schools and public colleges in California.

66.   The bill would prevent a public college or university from cutting a sport without public notice.

67.   The council was divided over a plan to recommend that all public colleges and the university forgo any increases in mandatory student fees as well.

68.   The complaint focuses on the advanced-placement classes that the public colleges take into account in admissions decisions and that are typically missing from poor schools.

69.   The most dramatic examples of price restraint are found in the tax-supported public college systems.

70.   The measure applies to cities, counties, public schools and public colleges.