This morning the Trib corrected a small item in one of its Charter School Stories from yesterday. To wit:
A Wednesday page C1 story about charter school growth in Duluth, “Charter schools enjoy enrollment boost,†misstated the number of students that left the Duluth school district since last year. The 2012-13 enrollment figure the number was based on, which included early childhood students, was an official Oct. 1 count from the Minnesota Department of Education. The official final count from the state for the same date this year is not yet available and will not reflect the final enrollment for the year.
The News Tribune regrets the errors.
This is really a technical correction and not all that big a deal. I saw it on the inside front page of my paper but it got me wondering where I’d find it on the Online DNT. I just typed in “corrections” on their site’s search function and it popped up. I suspect that hardly anyone looks for the corrections on the inside front page and even fewer people look for corrections at the online site. They do probably search for education related articles and so for a week or more after the paper hits the Web people will be reading the stories not knowing that a correction has been made. I’d suggest that the Websters at the DNT start putting corrections directly at the end of the stories corrected rather than in an unvisited niche on their website.
