the new admissions policy increased the enrollment from 1 to 7% black students. hispanics from 3 to 11% and decreased asian american representation from 73% down to 54%. former president mike pence weighed in at the university of virginia earlier this week. patriotic education has been replaced by political indoctrination. let me be clear. critical race theory is nothing more than state-sanctioned racism and it should be rejected by every state in every city in this country. [applause] the thomas jefferson school board says it is trying to achieve racial balancing. it don t set any racial quotas and admissions are race blind. despite a lower court s ruling that found the new policy discriminatory the school board said it wanted to prove geographic diversity. virginia s attorney general isn t buying that argument.