NPR, which is a far left media organization, investigated the reported number of school shootings in the USA as officially reported by the Department of Education for the 2015-2016 school year. The amount of error is astounding.
The Department of Education reported 240 school shootings. So NPR went to every one of the 240 schools to find out if it was reported accurately.
11 actual school shooting incidents of any kind out of 240 reported by the Feds. Tell me it isn't obvious that data is being manipulated for political purposes!This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.