Considered an effort to weaken Affirmative Action, Proposition 54 became a ballot initiative in 2003.
“We had to fight Prop 54,” says CTFC Board member Anni Chung, “because without the data, how do you know which community suffers the most?
“The issue was so central to our work and that of our grantees,” says CTFC Board Chairman Jacquelyn Brand. “Being unable to gather data, to just be ignorant about information, would be a terrible threat to our effectiveness.”
