Omar Garza, former board member of the Texas State Board of Education, discusses the board's response to bilingual education legislation. At the time, the state board was very conservative and against bilingual education. Doing very little in terms of changing anything, the board prefers to follow what the legislature tells them to do. Arguments against bilingual education included the sentiments that English must be spoken in America and the question of requirements for teachers. The TSTA was against teachers going back to be certified for bilingual education. Although the state board recommended to the legislature in 1968 that the language restriction for instructing only in English be removed, the board most gave the impression that they did not support large changes to the education system. The state board initially rejected the Mexican American study conducted by the Commission on Civil Rights, citing it as it had no basis and was too liberally biased, but did eventually consider it. A meeting was called between the Senate education committee, the House education committee and the state board to discuss bilingual education's funding and a need to focus on a per student amount. To Garza, the meeting was necessary to overcome the disconnection between the state board and the legislature, in hopes of having a better way to create solutions.

First phone call with Garza begins at 0:00 and ends at 17:00. New phone calls begin at 17:00 and at 18:21.