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This season, we've gotten deep on the history of District 28, how it became both segregated and diverse.

But the reason we started looking at this district in the first place was because of a proposed

diversity planning process, and some parents' reaction to it.

A planted diversify a Queen school district as prompting a protest from parents tonight,

a contentious meeting, with parents lashing out over a plan to boost diversity in their school district.

A plan the Department of Education says doesn't even exist yet.

This is called work department. Actually, we're going to make it sure that you guys don't get this plan done.

These parents made so much noise and got so much attention.

You might assume they stopped diversity planning in its tracks, but that's not what happened.

Instead, in early 2020, quietly and deliberately, the diversity working groups started to work.

This was a group of 20 volunteers, parents, students, teachers, administrators, and community leaders.

They'd meet in the evenings to learn about each other in the district,

plan a series of big public workshops, and strategize for how to get as many people to those

workshops as possible. And Aki Young says it was going well.

It was going very well. It was such a beautiful part of the process.

Aki worked for an urban planning firm called WXY that was hired by the city to facilitate this process.

People didn't really know each other in the working group when they started,

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