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Hank Huckaby
stated on December 16, 2014 civic club speech:

Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • January 7, 2015

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
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
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
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
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
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
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

By Tom Kertscher • December 12, 2014

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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