The Chronicle‘s HISD reporting is still as stunningly incompetent as ever, with the latest example being today’s story on how HISD discriminates through uniform requirements. It is a textbook example (sorry!) of the new MSM meme, “the narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.”
Here’s Sarah Viren’s narrative:
A Chronicle review of dress codes within the state’s largest school district found that high schools that have bucked the uniform trend are, on average, whiter and more affluent than those with stricter dress standards, state numbers show.
And here are her facts:
Of the nine high schools still without standardized dress requirements, four are majority white, a rarity in HISD overall, which is about 90 percent minority. Of the more than 20 with some form of uniform dress, only one campus — Lamar — is majority white.
Except that Viren’s facts are flat out wrong. She summarizes her facts, but doesn’t provide the reader with the actual data. In the comments to Viren’s story, HISD spokesman Terry Abbott provides the data Viren didn’t:
The premise of the story
