When the Raleigh News & Observer planned an in-depth look at the No Child Left Behind law for its Sunday “Q” section, the paper’s staff asked Lindalyn Kakadelis to share her thoughts in a feature article, which ran side-by-side with those of a Wake County Schools official. Kakadelis wrote of the need for accountability and spending flexibility for schools, and shared, among other things, some of Wake’s alarmingly low graduation rates: 75 percent for white males and just 44 percent for black males. The column was then picked up and published in the daily e-mail update distributed by the Children’s Scholarship Fund.