{
  "id": "2000-march-recent-car-stories-2",
  "slug": "2000-march-recent-car-stories-2",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-march-recent-car-stories-2.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Recent CAR stories",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "This collection includes two investigative journalism series: one analyzing high school performance using regression analysis of state test scores and lunch program participation, and another examining deaths of mentally ill and developmentally disabled individuals in North Carolina through death records and police reports.",
  "keywords": [
    "investigation",
    "schools",
    "deaths"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Education"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "\"Grading Our High Schools\"\nThe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Feb. 6, 2000\nhttp://triblive.com/frames/grades.html\n\nAccording to the series' author, this investigation \"features a regression analysis using average state assessment test scores and participation in the free and reduced-price lunch program.\"\n\n\"Broken Trust\"\nThe Charlotte Observer Jan. 23-27, 2000\nwww.charlotte.com/special/mentalhealth\nThe Observer identified deaths of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled by searching 370,000 N.C. death records from 1994 through mid-1999, along with hundreds of police and autopsy reports.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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      "slug": "2000-march-recent-car-stories",
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    {
      "slug": "1997-july-using-regression-analysis",
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    {
      "slug": "2000-june-death-and-dollars",
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    {
      "slug": "2006-july-august-finding-diamonds-in-the-rough",
      "score": 0.215
    },
    {
      "slug": "1999-march-wanted-mentally-ill",
      "score": 0.208
    }
  ],
  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-march-recent-car-stories-2.html",
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}