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Dorothy Brown
stated on July 15, 2018 a radio interview:

"Pre-K has gone down since the current mayor took office."

Mostly False

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 29, 2018

Leah Vukmir
stated on June 1, 2018 a tweet:

Tammy Baldwin "opposed displaying the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or singing the National Anthem in our classrooms."

Mostly False

By Diana Dombrowski • July 20, 2018

Viral image
stated on July 3, 2018 a meme shared on the Internet:

"39% of All California Students are illegals."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on May 13, 2018 a TV interview:

"By law, Democrats gave the superintendent of public instruction, back in 2009, the ability to take over failing schools … The current superintendent has failed to do that."

False

By D.L. Davis • July 5, 2018

Kelda Helen Roys
stated on May 28, 2018 a radio interview:

"There are a lot of private charters. And in fact, (Tony Evers) sought and received the largest charter school grant in the country from the Trump-DeVos administration to start new charter schools in Wisconsin."

Half-True

By Anna Groves • July 3, 2018

Troy LaRaviere
stated on June 1, 2018 a blog post:

"Under Emanuel, CPS has become the most understaffed school district in Illinois."

True

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 21, 2018

Roy Cooper
stated on May 30, 2018 a tweet:

"One legislative Republican’s district gets almost all the school supply funding."

Mostly False

By Paul Specht • June 7, 2018

Florida House Majority Office
stated on May 17, 2018 a video:

It is a "myth" that "per-student funding only rose by 47 cents this year."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • May 30, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on April 17, 2018 an online ad:

"Property and income taxes will be lower in 2018 than they were in 2010."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • May 30, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 23, 2018 a CNN town hall:

A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2018

Andy Gronik
stated on May 13, 2018 a candidates forum:

"I’ve lived" in Milwaukee "all 61 years of my life."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • May 23, 2018

Keith Faber
stated on May 11, 2018 a statement to the press:

"Thanks to the strong charter school reforms put in place while I was Senate President" the online charter school ECOT "was caught and is out of business."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • May 17, 2018

Lupe Valdez
stated on May 8, 2018 a Facebook Live interview by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board:

"There are some counties in Texas where the first day of hunting, you have to shut down the schools because people are going to go hunting."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018

Stokes County school teacher
stated on May 10, 2018 a Facebook post:

"I am roughly being paid $53 a day to educate your child."

False

By Paul Specht • May 16, 2018

Patty Murray
stated on May 8, 2018 a Senate subcommittee hearing:

"Each year ICE detains someone, it costs taxpayers over $50,000. For comparison, by the way, that's four times the amount the federal government spends on each child in our public schools."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • May 11, 2018

Adam Putnam
stated on May 5, 2018 a Republican candidate forum:

"Welders are coming out of their tech schools at $28 an hour" and "pipefitters are making six figures."

Half-True

By Allison Graves • May 10, 2018

Bill Hightower
stated on April 18, 2018 a debate:

"In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80 percent of the crime. We know who those families are."

Half-True

By Manuela Tobias • April 23, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on March 23, 2018 an interview:

Says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Scott Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2018

Cynthia Nixon
stated on March 26, 2018 a press conference:

Four years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised universal pre-K, "79 percent of 4-year olds outside New York City lack full-day pre-K."

Mostly True

By Dan Clark • March 30, 2018

Bloggers
stated on March 16, 2018 a headline:

"Ohio student suspended for staying in class during National Walkout Day"

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • March 28, 2018

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