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Audit of draft articles: issues and fixes
Summary
Checklist of editorial and factual issues found in the draft and the corrective actions applied in the final revision.
The draft articles were audited against the Issues Rules. The list below identifies problems found, their severity, and the fix applied in the revised articles.
spelling: One issue — multiple transcript occurrences showed "Northern London" or "Northern London School District" likely due to transcription errors; the official/local name is Northern Lebanon School District. Severity: medium. Fix: normalized all references to "Northern Lebanon School District" in articles and timeline.
clarity: [] chronology: [] framing: [] misinformation: One issue — some budget and CTC figures were described in relative terms or with transcription slip errors (e.g., partial numbers). Severity: medium. Fix: Marked numbers as approximate and used conservative phrasing ("about," "right under," "estimated"). Requested follow-up figures from administration for exact values.
misidentification: One issue — several speakers were not named in the transcript; the audit ensured attributions only where the transcript gave a name or an introduction (e.g., Leanne Martin and Seth Byers were introduced in the transcript). Severity: medium. Fix: used functional labels (Chair, Committee member) where no name was given and mapped named speakers only when explicitly introduced.
out_of_context: [] Quantitative precision: One issue — direct dollar and percentage figures were presented in slides as approximations; the draft sometimes reported them without qualifiers. Severity: medium. Fix: added qualifiers like "about" and "approximate," and included clarifying_details entries; flagged items for follow-up.
Process clarity: [] Context clarity: [] Agency clarity: [] Question emphasis: [] omission: One issue — the draft initially did not note that several budget figures were placeholders or approximations (e.g., $300,000 placeholder for CTC). Severity: medium. Fix: articles now explicitly label placeholder amounts and scenarios and note that administration will present refined numbers next week. bias: [] duplicate: []
Attribution lock: Verified that all direct quotes and attributions map to speakers identified in the transcript. If a statement could not be tied to a named speaker, it was left unattributed or attributed to a functional label. Severity: low.
Transcript segment error check: No timeline used SEG values beyond those present; all timeline entries reference segments shown in the transcript. Severity: low.
