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Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 3, 2014 an interview.
Regarding sexual assault against women, "It’s actually safer not to be in college than it is to be in college."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • January 4, 2015
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post.
Graduation rates of players at major football colleges "are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years."
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • December 30, 2014
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post
Only 20 colleges and universities "have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses."
True
By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post
"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
James Crowley
James Crowley
stated on December 6, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 21, 2014
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 a recent report
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Mostly False
By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 an interview
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
December 12, 2014
Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2014 an email blast
University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 1, 2014 a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event
"The pass rate for a high school level test to join the military" is 35 to 40 percent.
False
By Amy Sherman • December 9, 2014
Mike Dudgeon
Mike Dudgeon
stated on November 18, 2014 newspaper article
Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 6, 2014
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on December 2, 2014 an interview
At the 50 Milwaukee schools serving "at least 80% African-American and at least 80% low income" students, the reading proficiency is 8%.
True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 5, 2014
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 5, 2014 a meme on social media
"In 1990, the U.S. led the world in the percentage of 25-34 year olds with college degrees. Today we are in 12th place."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2014
Joy Pullmann
Joy Pullmann
stated on November 11, 2014 an opinion piece
Scott Walker "couldn’t get his own party" to back more than a 500-student increase in Milwaukee’s school choice program, but in Indiana, "Mitch Daniels’ voucher program is approaching 30,000 students two years after opening."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 21, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech
The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2014
Sloan Roach
Sloan Roach
stated on November 6, 2014 a television interview
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.
True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 11, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 27, 2014 a fundraising letter
"1/3 of our kids drop out (of high school), cannot go to college or start a career."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2014
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on October 28, 2014 a debate
"In K-12 education, our kids are scoring at the bottom of science and mathematics right now in the industrialized world -- at the bottom."
False
By Nancy Madsen • November 2, 2014
Zell Miller
Zell Miller
stated on October 27, 2014 television ad
Nathan Deal saved the HOPE scholarship program.
Mostly True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 31, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 22, 2014 a TV ad, "Better Schools"
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on October 27, 2014 a TV ad
"Scott Walker opposed a plan to help Wisconsin students refinance their student loans." 
False
October 29, 2014
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