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Terry McAuliffe
stated on April 27, 2013 a speech.

"Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old."

False

By Nancy Madsen • May 17, 2013

Allison Tant
stated on April 30, 2013 a Florida Voices column

Says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.

False

By Katie Sanders • May 6, 2013

Matt Mackowiak
stated on April 1, 2013 an opinion colulmn.

Says the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2013

Carlos Trujillo
stated on March 22, 2013 a House Education Committee meeting

"This (parent trigger) legislation was drafted by President Obama's top advisers. It was drafted by President Clinton’s top advisers."

False

By Katie Sanders • March 27, 2013

Florida Democratic Party
stated on March 4, 2013 a press release

Says Rick Scott called education not a "core function" of the state.

False

By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2013

Sondy Pope
stated on February 18, 2013 a news release

Under Gov. Scott Walker’s public-school budgets, "a student entering kindergarten will not enjoy the same state investment in his or her education as those that came before them until they are graduating from high school."

False

By Dave Umhoefer • March 3, 2013

Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2013 a press conference.

Says Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2013

Dawson Hodgson
stated on January 3, 2013 a radio interview

"The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."

False

By Michael McKinney • January 13, 2013

David Dewhurst
stated on November 29, 2012 remarks to the Dallas Regional Chamber

Says that under Texas law, it takes six years to close a failing school.

False

By Sue Owen • January 1, 2013

Tom Kean Jr.
stated on October 17, 2012 an interview with reporters at William Paterson University

"New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade."

False

By Erin O'Neill • October 28, 2012

Anthony Gemma
stated on August 28, 2012 a TV debate

Says that as Providence’s mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a "world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country."

False

By Tom Mooney • August 30, 2012

Ted Lyon
stated on July 31, 2012 an opinion column in the Austin American-Statesman

Says most Texas schools spend 45 out of 180 school days in mandated testing.

False

By Sue Owen • August 29, 2012

Dolores Gresham
stated on July 16, 2012 in an interview with The Commercial Appeal.

"I didn’t try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students.

False

By Richard Locker • August 12, 2012

Tomorrow's Vision of Florida
stated on August 6, 2012 a mailer

Says Ron Saunders "made the choice to stand with Rick Scott" on expanding school vouchers, restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy.

False

By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2012

Gerard Robinson
stated on June 15, 2012 a written statement

FCAT tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."

False

By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution

Says New Jersey’s tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure."

False

By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012

Dan Ramos
stated on June 13, 2012 a speech in the Ohio House

Lorain "is the poorest urban school district in the state of Ohio."

False

By Joe Guillen • July 2, 2012

Shawn Lindsay
stated on June 21, 2012 a campaign press release

Says, "Yet in Salem they have traditionally waited until the money is almost gone to pay for the most important things in our state’s budget."

False

By Janie Har • June 26, 2012

We Are Wisconsin
stated on May 25, 2012 campaign mail

Says Gov. Scott Walker "took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich."

False

May 31, 2012

Michelle Obama
stated on May 29, 2012 an interview with NPR

"Only 2 percent of public high schools in the country offer PE classes."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 30, 2012

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