Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 6, 2022 Campaign email
Says “Tim Michels wants to defund public education — calling it ‘the definition of insanity’ to continue to fund public schools.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • October 17, 2022
Tim Michels
Tim Michels
stated on September 4, 2022 Twitter
Says Tony Evers is “a career politician.”
Mostly False
By Vanessa Swales • October 7, 2022
Tom Horne
Tom Horne
stated on August 21, 2022 a tweet
Under Kathy Hoffman, “student test scores plummeted. Even before COVID, under the current regime, over half of Arizona students were not proficient in reading or math.”
Mostly False
By Alexis Waiss, Renee Romo • September 19, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 11, 2022 Facebook post
“With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.”
Mostly False
September 8, 2022
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on August 26, 2022 an ad
Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is a "bailout for rich kids."
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August 31, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 29, 2022 a press conference
“The student debt that is out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • May 5, 2022
School Freedom Fund
School Freedom Fund
stated on April 2, 2022 a television ad
Former Gov. Pat McCrory appointed liberals to the North Carolina Textbook Commission, which “mandated textbooks” pushing critical race theory.
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By Paul Specht • April 26, 2022
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on January 17, 2022 a TV interview
“The Loudoun County School Board spent about $300,000 (last year) … to bring CRT in some form or fashion to the school system.”
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By Warren Fiske • January 24, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 18, 2021 an article
The FBI targeted a woman and searched her home because she “protested local school board, elections.”
Mostly False
By Monique Curet • November 23, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 8, 2021 in a CNN interview
"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 16, 2021
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on September 13, 2021 Instagram
“The Walker-Kleefisch administration slashed $800 million from public schools."
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By D.L. Davis • October 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 a Facebook post
"Tennessee new law passed 48 hours ago now makes it illegal to teach Black history in the grades K-12."
Mostly False
October 19, 2021
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on July 21, 2021 a TV ad
“Under Terry McAuliffe (there was a) record investment in education.”
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • August 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 25, 2021 a Facebook post
“The Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.”
Mostly False
May 28, 2021
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on May 21, 2021 a tweet
“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 24, 2021
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on May 6, 2021 a debate.
“Every single Petersburg (Va.) school was accredited when I left office.”
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • May 12, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 8, 2021 Twitter
With federal stimulus money for schools, “no distinctions are being made between Wisconsin schools that remain closed to in-person learning, and those that have been re-opened for months.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • May 5, 2021
Iowa GOP state legislators
Iowa GOP state legislators
stated on February 2, 2021 comments to the press
Tenured professors are guaranteed a job.
Mostly False
March 15, 2021
Colin Schmitt
Colin Schmitt
stated on January 14, 2021 a news conference
“We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 18, 2020 a virtual roundtable
“666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • November 20, 2020
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