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Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Ruben Hinojosa
Ruben Hinojosa
stated on July 16, 2016 a tweet
"50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college."
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By Rye Druzin • August 15, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 a radio interview
Since 1978, college "tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation."
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By Sarah Hauer • June 9, 2016
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 26, 2016 a an online opinion-piece
"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."
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By Cara Lombardo • June 3, 2016
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on May 13, 2016 the majority Texas Supreme Court opinion in Texas school finance case
Before 2005, "the percentage of" Texas high school "students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28% in English and 42% in math. Those figures stood at 65% and 66% in 2013."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 3, 2015 a news conference.
"Since 2008, we have cut 5,000 positions" from Virginia public schools.
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By Warren Fiske • December 8, 2015
Richard Woods
Richard Woods
stated on September 2, 2015 press release
Georgia’s CRCT "set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation."
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By Nancy Badertscher • September 15, 2015
Melissa Johnson
Melissa Johnson
stated on August 6, 2015 a report
Georgia has the 9th highest rate of adults, ages 18 to 64, without a high school diploma or GED.
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By Nancy Badertscher • September 2, 2015
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on July 15, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"In New Orleans, nearly 100 percent of our kids are in charter schools."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 13, 2015 a campaign rally speech
"The top 25 hedge fund managers (are) making more than all of America's kindergarten teachers combined."
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By Lauren Carroll • June 15, 2015
Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 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."
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By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 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."
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By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation."
Seventy percent of Americans "don't have a college degree."
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By Katharina Fiedler • April 8, 2015
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 article
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.    
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015
Alan Essig
Alan Essig
stated on January 22, 2015 blog post
The governor’s budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.
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By Nancy Badertscher • February 6, 2015
GSU Alumni Association
GSU Alumni Association
stated on January 13, 2015 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.
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By Nancy Badertscher • January 23, 2015
Virginia Education Association
Virginia Education Association
stated on January 2, 2015 a web post.
State "school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation."
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By Warren Fiske • January 12, 2015
Hank Huckaby
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.
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By Nancy Badertscher • January 7, 2015
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post
Only 20 colleges and universities "have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 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.
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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%.
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By Dave Umhoefer • December 5, 2014
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