Initiative, and a $1 million increase in funding for the College Reach Out Program. 3 We will also pay incentive bonuses for teaching Advanced Placement Courses on our low performing schools.(Equity in Education) In the improved version of ONE FLORIDA, the Governor's Executive Budget has recommended "an increase of $36 million for [A+ Supplemental Instruction], as well as other intervention strategies and activities to improve student achievement" (Improvements to ONE FLORIDA). In addition the College Board partnership will provide free on-line access to SAT preparation activities for all Florida high school students. By these increases in funding, Governor Bush is ensuring that more minority students who are planning to attend college are better prepared to meet the requirements for both admissions and the rigors of postsecondary education (Equity in Education). It is a proven fact that students who are not properly prepared for postsecondary education and are admitted on the basis of race or gender do not fare as well as truly qualified white students. Robert M. O'Neil, attorney and Vice President of Indiana University, publisheda study of white law students vs. black ones. The study conducted by Professor George N. Stevens in conjunction with the Association of American Law Schools Bar Examination Study Project, carefully observed 1,042 minority students during their three years in law school and when taking the bar examination (68). According to Stevens' findings, "154 minority students were dismissed for academic reasons ~ a rate higher than that for white-Anglo students...167 students simply disappeared...and 100 of these students withdrew voluntarily during the three years"(qtd. in O'Neal 69). Stevens goes on to report that out of 408 graduates who took the bar examination "only 56% of blacks passed", and that "the success rate was about half that of regular students" (qtd. in O'Neal 69). From this study we lea...
