over to los angeles police after being charged with a double murder, it was a big deal. simpson stood accused in the brutal stabbing death of his wife, 35-year-old nicole brown simpson and her friend, 25-year-old ron goldman. only instead of the expected shot of simpson perp walking himself into the police department, the video image from that day captivated not only the media but also the entire country and it was this. his white ford bronco driven by his friend al cowlings, o.j. hadn t shown nup in the police department but was in the back seat of the truck purportedly with a gun to his head, followed in a low speed chase by at least 20 squad cars along the freeways of los angeles. it was the opening scene of an extended drama that would reach its climax with a spectacular inescapable trial and evolve into a national obsession that captured the attention of the viewing public like no other criminal case ever had before this moment, that single shot of the white truck at the head of t
case links that inequality to the issue of due process for teacher employment. well, i think that there s a couple things you have to consider. first of all, the statutes that were challenged here, the dismissal statutes, go far beyond due process. due process is a notice and an opportunity to be heard. we never challenged that teachers should have due process with respect to continued employment. in fact, we are hugely in favor of that. the problem with these statutes is that they were so expensive, so time-consuming, so burdensome, that as the court noted, it makes it ill uxusory t you can actually dismiss an ineffective teacher in california. there are 275,000 teachers on average in california per year. only 2.2, that s 2.2 out of 275,000, are dismissed for unsatisfactory performance every year. that s obviously not reflective of the number of grossly ineffective teachers. even if you can take the numbers
batterer, we get to see all kinds of things on the internal part of his life and i m wondering if it actually generates a hunger then. because our world now is knowing all the dirt, knowing all of the everything of one another. do you think, clearly it follows the o.j. case but is it causal? maybe so. i continue to cover trials around the country for 19 years after that trial, and i did see changes in the courtroom. first of all, cameras didn t cause the spectacle. it was who o.j. was. we got a little bit jaded as americans, got a little more used to the justice system. while there was always an appetite to see a trial unfolding it was never the same. maybe when michael jackson was tried for child molestation there was a zoo outside the courtroom, tent city, but no cameras in the courtroom. so i did see more sophistication among viewers, cynicism also about the system, but cameras did not cause that. let me ask, because i like this idea.
teachers identified, only 22% applied for the program. to be clear, tenure for teachers in k through 12 is not a guarantee of perpetual employment. education expert dana goldstein joined my colleague chris hayes on all in thursday and explained this. what is tenure? great first question. it s a promise of due process so once a teacher earns tenure rights, if a principal or school wants to get rid of them, want to fire them, they have to make the case. they have to bring it before a neutral arbitrator, they have to present evidence for why this teacher is bad at their job, and the teacher importantly has the right to representation in that hearing. the california teachers association announced it will appeal the decision. according to the los angeles times those appeals could go on for years. so could the repercussions of the ruling. according to the new york times lawyers in the case have said they may bring similar lawsuits in at least six other
that were conceded by the experts on the other side in this case, the number of grossly ineffective teachers is about 1% to 3%. taking those numbers, that means you re having a devastating impact on huge numbers of children. what we saw from expert testimony in our case is that per every ineffective teacher, kids lose in a classroom about $50,000 per kid in lifetime earnings. if you have 25 kids in a class, and you do the math, you end up realizing you re talking about $11.6 billion in lost lifetime earnings per annum as a result of exposure to grossly ineffective teachers. as you pointed out, there s a disparate impact on black and brown kids and low income kids where these grossly ineffective teachers tend to be concentrated. we saw this as a pro teacher and pro kid case. hold for me just one second. don t go away. i want to turn now to randi. i think you have heard here the case and the fact is that part