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I'll have more on this later, but Wake County school officials have released today their progress report to AdvancED.
Click here for a page with links to the progress report, executive summary, supporting evidence and interview schedule. Wake prepared the data ahead of the AdvancED return visit on Nov. 29-30.
The goal is to get AdvancED to keep Wake's high schools accredited.
Click here for the original AdvancED report.
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Control the message, control the coverage
Wed, 11/23/2011 - 18:17 — truthBtoldReleasing their version of the story the day before a holiday and a four day weekend is expert spin control. By the time the AdvancEd team rolls into town next week, this will all be "old news."
This is becoming a pattern of pre-emptive publicity control. It happened last week when WTVD was doing an I-Team investigation of lunchroom health inspections and lo and behold ! That very day on the WCPSS website info on lunches gets posted just ahead of the story being aired. Keung what other stories have you worked on that have gone this way?
I hope people take notice and remember. Contrived, disingenuous and ill-spirited. Welcome new Board Members to the world-class WCPSS.
It's actually a good PR
Wed, 11/23/2011 - 18:37 — KeungHui (author)It's actually a good PR strategy on their part. I had requested a copy of their progress report for a story I was working on. I hadn't expected they would release it publicly to all the media outlets.