Hawley: my hope is that we will demonstrate the humility to take a step back. this is forever work that we are voting on tonight. east austin will never be the same.

Hawley: i'm excited to be here at this time, and i'm excited to be in this district and board that wants to commit to anti-racism work. i'm proud of my team and Dr. Cruz's team. We all learned what it means to disrupt history in this district.

cont: nobody could show me the work of how we got here. I don't know how those schools were selected, I've heard different things at different times. i'm asking we bring in national consultants to do an equity audit. we desperately need it on our finances, academics and buildings

Hawley: the map you have of the closures is what 21st century racism looks like. We did not deliberately do that. But we didn't disrupt history. Our process for picking schools was flawed and inequitable. I can't find documentation for how those selections were made

Tonight is the first meeting where the new public comment rules are in effect. This means people who sign up can't speak about whatever they want. There are 10 spots for general public comment. 7/10 spots are going to speak about the new sex ed curriculum