Greensboro Guardian editor Davenport tells a whopper

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GREENSBORO, NC --Editor Charles Davenport, Jr. at the Greensboro Guardian:

[H]ere is an excerpt from a “fact check” feature at WRAL: “If you look at the graph, it looks like the General Assembly [controlled by Democrats at the time], cut the K-12 education heavily in 2010-11. It also seems to show that after Republicans took over in 2011-12 they put more into the schools than was there even [in] 2009-10. In terms of state spending, that is correct."

The Guardian laughably reinforces the worst stereotypes of its contributors—that they are insulated and detached from the world— by rarely embedding hyperlinks to the sources it cites, and Davenport did not do so for this quote either. That may be with good reason, because the next paragraph from WRAL, which was not included by Davenport, destroys his point:

But the graph is misleading in terms of the money that was actually available to schools. It ignores key pieces of the 2009-10 and 2010-11 budgets. Taking a more complete view, the budget proposed for 2012-13 is actually $330 million less than the one enacted in 2009-10.