Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2023 a Facebook reel
Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.
False
By Sara Swann • July 21, 2023
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
stated on July 5, 2023 a chyron
Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.
False
By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 29, 2023 a tweet
Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on June 18, 2023 a TV interview
“Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
False
By Sevana Wenn • June 22, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on June 4, 2023 a CNN town hall
Having "biological boys … in their locker rooms” is a reason why “a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 22, 2023 a post
Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • June 1, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 24, 2023 a Twitter Spaces event
“There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Matthew Crowley • May 31, 2023
Francis Suarez
Francis Suarez
stated on May 21, 2023 a TV interview
“Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.”
True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 23, 2023
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 a news conference
The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2023 a CNN town hall
“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook
U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
North Carolina state House Democratic Caucus
North Carolina state House Democratic Caucus
stated on February 8, 2023 a tweet
“North Carolina ranks last in the country in K-12 funding.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • April 7, 2023
Brandon Creighton
Brandon Creighton
stated on March 19, 2023 Interview with WFAA
When discussing education savings accounts, "We would be 31st in the nation to have these policies going forward on behalf of kids.”
Half-True
By Aarón Torres • March 30, 2023
Tommy Tuberville
Tommy Tuberville
stated on March 2, 2023 a speech at the CPAC conference
"Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read their diploma.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 3, 2023 a news release
New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposes to “ban chocolate milk.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 a news release
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack
stated on March 2, 2023 a speech at CPAC
The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 20, 2023 a Facebook post
Canada has only “had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.”
Half-True
February 23, 2023
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on February 2, 2023 a radio interview.
Brown v. Board of Education “was never about sending Black children to white schools. It was about parents being able to decide where to send their children to school.”
False
By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2023
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