The Trump Administration's pressure to end the use of affirmative action in education is already influencing one Texas university to take its own steps.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will stop using race as a factor when admitting students to its medical school.

This is the first school to take such action under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

To find out more, KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Senior Education Director of Research at the Pacific Research Institute.

The Trump Administration's pressure to end the use of affirmative action in education is already influencing one Texas university to take its own steps. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will stop using race as a factor when admitting students to its medical school. This is the first school to take such action under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. To find out more, KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Senior Education Director of Research at the Pacific Research Institute.

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