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Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 12, 2015 in a headline on DownTrend.com:
"Students In Fla. High School Forced To Recite Islamic Prayer, Make Prayer Rugs."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • February 24, 2015
Rebecca Blank
Rebecca Blank
stated on February 12, 2015 in a public meeting:
UW-Madison "spent down reserves" as it was told to do two years ago and, facing new state budget cuts, has "no more reserves to spend down."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 20, 2015
Marjorie Sanfilippo
Marjorie Sanfilippo
stated on February 16, 2015 in a Florida Senate criminal justice committee hearing:
"200,000 students attempt suicide every year on college campuses."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2015
Florida Badass Teachers Association
Florida Badass Teachers Association
stated on February 10, 2015 in a statement to the Miami Herald:
Florida students take "an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2015
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on February 15, 2015 in a column:
Says award-winning Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off because Gov. Scott Walker cut state aid to education.
False
By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on February 12, 2015 in an interview:
Ninety-six percent of failing schools are spending above $8,400, the average annual per student expenditure, and 26 percent spend considerably more than that.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 17, 2015
Sheila Resseger
Sheila Resseger
stated on January 10, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests."       
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • February 15, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 in a speech in Detroit:
Hispanic students in Florida perform "the best" of any Hispanic population in the United States.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 4, 2015 in a tweet:
Fundamental changes made to the language describing the Wisconsin Idea in the University of Wisconsin System's mission statement were the result of a "drafting error."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2015
X posts
X posts
stated on February 2, 2015 in Twitter posts:
"Scott Walker to cut $300 million from universities, spend $500 million on a pro basketball stadium."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2015
Alan Essig
Alan Essig
stated on January 22, 2015 in blog post:
The governor’s budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 6, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 1, 2015 in interview on Fox News Sunday:
Under Common Core standards, it takes "more than a minute" to teach a student "how to add nine plus six."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 3, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 in an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:
"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 in an email blast:
"College tuition rates in Texas jumped by 55% since 2003."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2015
GSU Alumni Association
GSU Alumni Association
stated on January 13, 2015 in mass email:
The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation, with more than 54,000 students.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 23, 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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 in a book:
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Virginia Education Association
Virginia Education Association
stated on January 2, 2015 in a web post.:
State "school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation."
True
By Warren Fiske • January 12, 2015
Peter Feigin
Peter Feigin
stated on January 6, 2015 in a speech:
The Milwaukee Bucks are "actually younger than the Marquette team."
False
By James B. Nelson • January 9, 2015
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