Indeed, based on this state report regarding the host site that did not perform as well as peer schools and will ultimately be closed by New York City, it appears that a host of issues having nothing to do with School of One may be to blame for the first-year outcomes.

FORBES: The Counterproductive Attack on NYC's School of One

On Wednesday, a report into a Newsnight programme that led to Tory peer Lord McAlpine being wrongly accused of child sex abuse found the BBC had failed to perform "basic journalistic checks".

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