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Don’t shut the door on diversity at colleges

Most people believe increased educational opportunity for low-income Latino and African-American students is the key to a better quality of life in Milwaukee.

That’s why some support the school voucher program, essentially a taxpayer-supported affirmative action plan for minority students to attend private schools.

However, when attempts are made to incorporate more diversity in higher education, many of these same folks start to complain about racial quotas being used to create an unfair advantage.