sc00400568A Star Tribune photo caption that mistakenly calls current Minneapolis school superintendent Bill Green by the name of his predecessor of 25 years ago is the kind of long-in-the-tooth goof-up only so-called legacy media could make.

It takes a news veteran with decades of service in the community to see a photo of Bill Green seated behind a nameplate reading “Superintendent Dr. Green” and think of the late Dr. Richard Green, the first African-American (and before Bill Green, the last African-American man) to lead the Minneapolis Public Schools.

Richard Green’s seven years as superintendent in the 1980s included a wave of school closings to rival the district-downsizing that the current school board undertook last night. He died from an asthma attack in New York City in 1989, where he had served as chancellor of the public schools for a little more than a year.

The photo-caption error was called out as early as 10:24 p.m. in online reader comments to the Strib’s story on Tuesday’s momentous school board meeting, but apparently no one noticed in time to fix the print edition. The caption has since been corrected online.