Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Michael Doherty
stated on November 3, 2011 a speech before the East Jersey Tea Party

Says the state auditor found that 37 percent of the 428,000 students receiving free and reduced-price lunches are ineligible.

By Bill Wichert • November 20, 2011

Robert Menendez
stated on October 18, 2011 a speech

"New Jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget. This means more cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt."

By Bill Wichert • November 3, 2011

Scott Walker
stated on October 16, 2011 an interview

"The largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees."

October 26, 2011

Jorge Elorza
stated on October 2, 2011 a TV interview

"The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state..."

By Lynn Arditi • October 11, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 a commentary published in Education Week

Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.

By Willoughby Mariano • October 7, 2011

Arne Duncan
stated on August 18, 2011 an interview.

Says Texas schools have had "massive increases" in class sizes with Rick Perry as governor.

By W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 18, 2011 remarks during a campaign stop in New Hampshire

"In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2011

Ken Plum
stated on August 3, 2011 a newspaper column.

Virginia has a responsibility to fund 55 percent of public education and is paying just 41 percent.

By Sean Gorman • August 12, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on June 24, 2011 a mailer

Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 5, 2011

Peter Barca
stated on June 25, 2011 a newspaper column and other statements

Says new GOP Wisconsin Assembly members "voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private Milwaukee voucher schools."

July 13, 2011

Chris Christie
stated on April 29, 2011 a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

"For a young man or woman who is entering the ninth grade in Newark this year, they have a 29 percent graduation rate."

By Erin O'Neill • June 15, 2011

Doug Otto
stated on March 22, 2011 a radio interview.

Says Rick Perry said there’s an administrator for every teacher in Texas public schools.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 10, 2011

Angel Taveras
stated on May 15, 2011 an interview

The Providence teacher contract "is one of the longest in the country."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2011

Dick Armey
stated on April 17, 2011 an oped column.

"At Texas A&M University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2011

Allie McCullen
stated on March 2, 2011 a speech

"The Georgia Lottery Corp. has only once in the past 16 years paid out the agreed upon 35 percent of proceeds to the account which funds the HOPE scholarship."

By M.B. Pell • April 27, 2011

Mark Hass
stated on March 30, 2011 in a press release

"For every one ESD superintendent position, we can pay for three speech pathologists, or three special needs instructors, or three classroom teachers."

By Ian K. Kullgren • April 11, 2011

Meria Carstarphen
stated on April 1, 2011 a radio interview.

Austin’s Pease Elementary "is a school that was created as part of the Texas Constitution."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 10, 2011

Thad Altman
stated on March 10, 2011 comments while discussing merit pay for teachers

Says students who receive free or reduced lunch are "performing just as well" as students who do not.

By Aaron Sharockman • March 11, 2011

Andy Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 a web post.

Says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal to "serve up $10,000 college degrees" is possible.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2011

Rand Paul
stated on February 24, 2011 an appearance on a TV interview program

"The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsin’s making $89,000 a year" in salary and benefits.

March 4, 2011

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