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See here a list of CFER's press releases, media advisories and action alerts.
CFER
September 02, 2026
Breaking Bad News ! ACA 7, another attack on equality, heads to 2028 ballot. There’s time but we need your help NOW!
On Sunday (August 30th), the State Assembly voted 59-to-19 (1 no vote recored), along partisan lines, to approve non-substantive changes to the bill, following the State Senate’s partisan vote for it on August 27th. This means that ACA 7 will be placed on the state ballot in 2028 and it will be once again up to Californian voters to decide whether or not race-based affirmative action in education should be legal. Help us spread the word on ACA 7’s progress with the following actions.
CFER
August 26, 2026
Public service or else? Six million taxpayer funds awarded to nonprofit founded by Assemblymember Corey Jackson
Earlier this month, the Center Against Racism and Trauma (CART), a Riverside-based boutique nonprofit created by Asm. Jackson, was awarded $6 million by the California State Legislature. As the newest threat to California’s equal protection guarantee makes its way to the Senate floor for a vote, the State Legislature’s staunchest opponent to Prop. 209 has been found to be in active collaboration with an ideologically aligned nonprofit that just became the recipient of $6 million in public funding.
CFER
August 19, 2026
Proactive local organizing prompts school board to adopt a resolution for bringing SAT/ACT back to UC admissions
On August 6th, the San Dieguito Union High School District board voted 4-0 (1 absent) to adopt a district-wide resolution, urging the University of California (UC) system to reinstate standardized testing for undergraduate admissions in STEM fields. Just as individual UC professors have forced these higher education administrators to contend with academic declines as a result of the test-blind movement, parents and local advocates are behind SDUHSD’s passage of the test-reinstating resolution.
CFER
July 14, 2026
Senator Ochoa Bogh to speak at CFER Conference. Join us to hear from the Senator and other distinguished speakers!
California State Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh of Inland Empire will join us at CFER’s upcoming conference on July 24 and July 25 in Orange County. Senator Ochoa Bogh is a strong ally to CFER’s cause of equality. In 2020, when the Senator was a school board member at the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District, she supported the No on 16 campaign to defend Prop. 209 and spoke passionately about the American Dream. During her tenure in the State Senate, notably as the Vice Chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Ochoa Bogh has consistently advocated for equal rights. Often, she is the lone voice of reason and sanity in committee hearings, speaking forcefully and eloquently against constitutional amendments to repeal Prop. 209. Most recently, the Senator voiced concerns against ACA 7 and debated its proponents during its committee hearing on June 3rd, 2026.