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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech
Thanks to the Act 10 collective bargaining law that took effect four years ago, ACT scores in Wisconsin "are now second-best in the country for states where more than half the kids take the exam."
Mostly False
June 12, 2015
Mike Tate
Mike Tate
stated on May 28, 2015 a speech
A Republican budget proposal "would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country." 
Half-True
June 11, 2015
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on May 22, 2015
Since Republicans took over after the 2010 election, "the graduation rate in Wisconsin has gone from 86 percent to 88 percent. The black graduation rate has gone from 60 percent to 65 percent. The Latino graduation rate has gone from 65 percent to 71 percent."
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • June 10, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech
Says Scott Walker "cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote."
Mostly True
June 9, 2015
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on April 23, 2014 an op-ed in "USA Today."
On Common Core.
Full Flop
By Linda Qiu • June 8, 2015
David Bowen
David Bowen
stated on May 11, 2015 a news release
"Two of the top three (rated) public high schools in Wisconsin — Ronald Reagan College Prep and Rufus King International — are MPS schools."
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • June 4, 2015
Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview with Kiah Collier, Austin American-Statesman reporter
Austin school district "teachers are the lowest paid of any urban" Texas district and the "lowest paid of any surrounding school district."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 27, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 9, 2015 a speech
"For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 26, 2015
EMILY's List
EMILY's List
stated on May 14, 2015 a column on Medium
Says Jeb Bush "once held $1 million in family planning grants hostage until the programs receiving the money agreed not to discuss birth control at all."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 20, 2015
Alex McMurtrie Jr.
Alex McMurtrie Jr.
stated on May 7, 2015 a campaign flyer.
State legislators "quietly shifted $2 billion from education to road building" in 2013.
False
By Warren Fiske • May 18, 2015
Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland
stated on May 6, 2015 a news release
"Republicans have already cut our neighborhood public schools three budgets in a row."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • May 11, 2015
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on May 3, 2015 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"
"Baltimore spends the third highest per capita on its public schools."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 22, 2015 a speech
"There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education."  
False
May 5, 2015
Rose Mary Grant
Rose Mary Grant
stated on March 29, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary.
Rhode Island "charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country."
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • April 30, 2015
Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 a press release
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
True
By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire
"We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2015 a roundtable at a community college
"The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA
Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune
On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Half Flip
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 14, 2015 State of State
This year’s state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 14, 2015
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