Evidence-based editorial writing
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Harry Travis, on the concerned4dcps e-list writes:
The Washington Post would be a better paper and public education in DC would be improved if the editorial board followed the same constraint the Letters to the Editor puts on readers: Only comment on stories and facts put into evidence in the paper.
Washington Post news editors have not put much before the public on the improvements in DCPS under Ms. Rhee, or on progress to the creation of a solid system of coordinated services, opportunities and programs for the health and education of children and families under Mr. Reinoso.
So, to what does the Post editorial refer to when it writes, in "Backward on School Reform: The D.C. Council wants to score points, and never mind the city's children":
"Mr. Reinoso['s ......] fledgling operation has been cited as a model for how cities can coordinate and integrate services for youth"?
Where, by whom, on what evidence, and with what comment and other appraisal? Mayor Fenty's summer youth jobs program?
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