But it was impossible to listen to days of recent testimony on school union contracts before the City Council's Education Committee without thinking that the most potentially revealing witnesses were missing: the mayors, chancellors and city and school negotiators of times past.
"Most importantly, any inference a jury could glean from this phone call is squelched" by the testimony of the school's Title IX expert, Yolanda Taylor, who said she was the sole decision-maker in the case.
Nevertheless it was the testimony of a group of school children, thousands of whom have been exposed to the practice in the last few years, that most moved the politicians.
In Hindu philosophy, yoga is the name of one of the six orthodox (which accept the testimony of Vedas) philosophical schools.
From more than 200 interviews, he collects the testimony of idealistic educators, charter school founders, policy gurus, crusading school superintendents and billionaire philanthropists.
Brill mounts a vigorous case against teachers' unions in this investigative work, which collects the testimony of idealistic educators, charter school founders, policy gurus, crusading school superintendents and philanthropists to convey the setbacks and triumphs of a national reform movement.
The testimony of Lindsey Harris, a high school student from Columbus, Ohio, in the trial of her stepmother, who is accused of murdering her husband of 10 years, David Harris, in a hotel parking lot was widely anticipated.
"This is the opposite of school busing," he added during testimony before the Board of Supervisors at City Hall.
The request, which would be a preliminary step to a possible indictment, is poised to be made next week and will be based on the testimony of Diego Torres, a former business school lecturer who became the partner of Cristina's husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
"We have had serious misgivings about Ofsted for many years, driven by the testimony of teachers and their concern for school standards.
