Audit of draft articles: issues and fixes

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.