Latest Fact Checks By Jeffrey S. Solochek

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Florida Stop Common Core Coalition says education testing company promotes gay lifestyle to school children

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
March 24, 2014
For educational testing, Florida "has chosen a company that has a significant history of promoting identification of the GLBT lifestyle for children as young as…
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State education chief says there’s no additional costs for implementing Common Core education standards

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
October 27, 2013
For the state of Florida, "there is not an additional cost with implementation of the Common Core standards."
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Teachers were not involved in developing the Common Core State Standards, say Common Core opponents

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
October 21, 2013
Teachers were not involved in developing the Common Core State Standards.
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New tests could take up 20 school days, say Will Weatherford and Don Gaetz

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
July 22, 2013
New school testing standards "will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students."
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Heather Fiorentino said Kurt Browning “allowed 1,800 illegal voters to register in Florida”

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
August 9, 2012
As Florida secretary of state, Kurt Browning "allowed 1,800 illegal voters to register in Florida."
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Is the Pasco County school district keeping up with class size requirements?

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
March 4, 2012
Pasco County "opened 22 new schools over six years to keep pace with growth in student population and implement the class size amendment."
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Pasco County schools have graduation rates above the state average and dropout rates below the state average, says Heather Fiorentino

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
March 4, 2012
Pasco County schools have graduation rates "substantially higher than the state average" and dropout rates "below the state average."
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Not quite the best

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
December 27, 2007
Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
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A lot of time, but the math is off

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
November 20, 2007
"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."
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Citizenship 110, Financial aid 102

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
November 20, 2007
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
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Mass. schools did improve

By Jeffrey S. Solochek
October 30, 2007
"We had a No Child Left Behind — a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal…
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