so a respected public lecture in fairview julio garcia was known as an advocate for latino communities. i often saw him rushing into political and community meetings at work still wearing a sport coat and tie or sweater vest. for years julio, it will he worked with an advocacy group along with many other parents and local advocates in getting area school districts to pay attention to the growing student population in their midst many of whom but not all of whom were underground. in particular he was involved with efforts to move promote bilingual education for spanish-speaking youth, he was -- recall the year it took to get the first bilingual program approved in the district. now the situation was different. with increased demand for foreign language instruction for english white families in the district desire to halt white flight school board decision to expandable anger generation, bilingual programs to fairview schools came pretty easily and julio set unfortunately you have heard it before, reflecting back on this earlier decision to expand the program, down my gosh, 50% of studen

upbeat and happy with the outcomes as he was, julio garcia knew it. so as one of the first book-length kris call race analysis of a -- critical analysis access, i hope this book helps us recognize and understand race and inequality is very central to how we make decisions in school districts and to be able to think critically about what are the directions forward from here. thank you. [applause] [background sounds] >> i thought that was a phenomenal introduction about you and the navigation of learning the data. and often a times we think about data as numbers, and you made a point to highlight the stories. as points of data. and then draw conclusions and and analysis. and you really got deep into the analysis part. i wanted to start this conversation with you, erica, lifting up the provocative title of "suddenly diverse." and for people of color, that's not what we would describe -- [laughter] >> yeah. >> --e happening. yet this phenomena of we we, we're, where all those people came from?th did they just move here? where did they live? we don't know

julio garcia knew it.it's one of the first book length critical race analyzes of school district policy. i hope that this book suddenly diverse helps us recognize and understand than race and inequality is very central to how we make decisions. school districts and to be able think critically about what are the directions for it from here. thank you. there was a phenomenal introduction about you and the navigation of learning the data and oftentimes we think about data as numbers and you made a point to highlight the stories as a place of data and, then draw conclusions and analysis and you really got us deep into the analysis part. i wanted to start this conversation with you, erika, lifting up the provocative title of standardly diverse and for people of color that's not what we would describe happening yet the this phenomena of we we're where all those people came from. did they just move here? where do they. we don't know who they are. is is a the phenomena that i see. i have definitely experienced tha