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The Associated Press
The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 in article:
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.    
True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015
Karina Wood
Karina Wood
stated on February 12, 2015 in testimony before the R.I. Senate Judiciary Committee:
Cigarette butts "poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 23, 2015
Nationwide
Nationwide
stated on February 1, 2015 in an ad during the Super Bowl:
"The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • February 2, 2015
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 in a tweet:
"Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 1, 2015
Claire Suggs
Claire Suggs
stated on January 9, 2015 in at Media Symposium:
The state covered a smaller percentage of the cost of K-12 education in 2013 than it did in 2002.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 20, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 13, 2015 in a speech:
On Common Core education standards
Half Flip
By Tom Kertscher • January 16, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2015 in a Facebook post:
"In 1913, it was legal to mail children."
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • January 13, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on December 19, 2014 in a list of talking points:
Says Jeb Bush "not only opposes marriage equality, he’s said he ‘personally’ believes gay couples should be banned from adopting children."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2015
James Crowley
James Crowley
stated on December 6, 2014 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 21, 2014
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Mostly False
By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 in an interview:
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • December 12, 2014
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 in a Journal commentary:
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
William Benson Huber
William Benson Huber
stated on September 28, 2014 in an op-ed in the "New York Post":
The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.    
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 16, 2014 in a TV ad:
Says Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, meaning thousands of teachers "lost their jobs" and "class sizes went up."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2014
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on September 8, 2014 in oped commentary:
"To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • September 21, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 15, 2014 in a TV ad:
Greg Abbott did "nothing" to pursue reports of the sexual abuse of boys at a West Texas state-run school.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 16, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on July 21, 2014 in an interview with Laura Ingraham:
More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week "than are born in Texas each week."
True
By Philip Jankowski • September 12, 2014
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on August 28, 2014 in a TV ad:
"Scott Walker cut school funding more per student than any governor in America."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer, Tom Kertscher • September 7, 2014
Henry Cuellar
Henry Cuellar
stated on July 16, 2014:
Says drug cartels are using social media to offer rebates so more children from Central America get smuggled to the United States.
Mostly False
By Nicole Chavez, W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on August 11, 2014 in a news article:
Wisconsin is "38th in the country in terms of proficiency standards" in student testing.
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 22, 2014
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