School Spotlight: Monument Academy, the Charter That Rebuilt Its High School, published July 19, 2026, contained two errors, both corrected on August 31, 2026.
The article’s fact box named Angela Duca as principal of Monument Academy’s secondary campus. Monument Academy’s staff directory lists Mason Young as secondary campus principal, covering grades 6 through 12, and his name appears in the leadership block on the school’s own high school page. The fact box now names Mason Young.
The article also said that when a grade fills, seats at Monument Academy go by lottery rather than by address or a years-deep list. That is wrong. The school’s board Admission Policy 1511 fills open seats first come, first served and, when applicants outnumber seats, uses a wait list with a set order of priority: students already enrolled and moving up a grade, then children of paid Monument Academy employees, then siblings of current students, then District 38 residents, then families outside the district. The policy describes no lottery. The passage has been rewritten and now links the policy.
Both errors arose the same way: the fact box and the admissions passage were written from general description rather than from the school’s staff directory and its governing board policy, which are the documents of record on each point. Both were caught while reporting a companion spotlight on Monument Academy Middle School.
