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Hillary Clinton
stated on June 13, 2015 in a campaign rally speech:

"The top 25 hedge fund managers (are) making more than all of America's kindergarten teachers combined."

True

By Lauren Carroll • June 15, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 2, 2015 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • June 12, 2015

Mike Tate
stated on May 28, 2015 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • June 11, 2015

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
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

Says Scott Walker "cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • June 9, 2015

Bobby Jindal
stated on April 23, 2014 in an op-ed in "USA Today.":

On Common Core.

Full Flop

By Linda Qiu • June 8, 2015

David Bowen
stated on May 11, 2015 in 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
stated on May 6, 2015 in 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
stated on May 9, 2015 in 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
stated on May 14, 2015 in 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.
stated on May 7, 2015 in 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
stated on May 6, 2015 in 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
stated on May 3, 2015 in 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
stated on April 22, 2015 in a speech:

"There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education."

False

By Tom Kertscher • May 5, 2015

Rose Mary Grant
stated on March 29, 2015 in 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
stated on March 5, 2015 in 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
stated on April 17, 2015 in 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
stated on April 21, 2015 in 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
stated on April 10, 2015 in 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
stated on April 7, 2015 in an interview with the Texas Tribune:

On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.

Half Flip

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015

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