The Department of Education apologized this afternoon after receiving quite a lot of Twitter mockery for misspelling the name of one of the founders of the NAACP.
This is the initial tweet they sent out about W.E.B. Du Bois (which is still up, as of this posting):
And cue the Twitter mockery over the irony of this particular department getting its spelling wrong:
The department ended up tweeting out a corrected version and apologizing for the error:
Unfortunately, the first version of that tweet also contained a typo:
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