It's now up to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu to decide a case brought by Students Matter, a group funded by Silicon Valley businessman David Welch. He hired two nationally known attorneys to represent nine mostly minority kids, claiming California's teacher protection laws give some students a better education than others. One witness was LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy, who compared a school in Encino to one in South Los Angeles by observing, "we have not struck down the wall of educational apartheid in this country."
Bad Teachers, Minority Students and the Constitution
Credits
Guests:
- Ted Boutrous - Gibson Dunn - @BoutrousTed
- Warren Fletcher - United Teachers Los Angeles - @utlanow
- Howard Blume - education reporter for the Los Angeles Times - @howardblume