Here’s a correction in today’s Chronicle:
A story on Page B1 of Tuesday’s City & State section incorrectly reported the source of the money that is paying for the Houston Independent School District’s new headquarters building. The building is being paid for with proceeds from the sale of HISD’s existing headquarters building.
Let’s check out yesterday’s story to find out what it said the source of money was for the new headquarters:
Houston voters gave HISD permission to borrow $808.6 million in 2002 to build 32 new schools and renovate 28 others. The bond program also includes money for the district’s new headquarters at U.S. 290 and Loop 610, new playgrounds for 125 elementary schools and air conditioning for 47 middle and high school gyms.
Oh my goodness! Yesterday the Chron reports that bond money is paying for HISD’s new headquarters and today, in a little teeny box, the Chron says…ooops, sorry.
Watch out for unhappy letters to the editor, screaming about HISD’s misuse of bond money.
KEVIN WHITED ADDS: Let’s see, an education story that got basic facts wrong in a way likely to generate public criticism of HISD? Who might have done such a story for the Chronicle? Ah, yes, Jason Spencer was the author. I’ll have to confer with Anne, but I suspect she left that out this time due to fear of repetitive stress typing injuries caused by identifying his blunders over so many blog posts.
