Texas House Rejects Changes in Top-10-Percent Plan for Admissions.

The article reports that the Texas House of Representatives has turned down a proposal that would have given state universities a voice in how many in-state students they must admit under Texas's top-10-percent law. The law specifies that Texas students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school classes be admitted to their choice of state universities. The article discusses the details of the proposal, and features the comments of Texas State Representative Helen Giddings, who argued against changing the 10 percent law because it promotes geographic diversity at Texas universities.