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Hillary Clinton
stated on August 25, 2016 in remarks in Reno:

"Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the ‘Trump Effect.’ They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslims and immigrants."

By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2016

Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 26, 2016 in a press event:

Chicago Public Schools "lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system," "match the United States of America in kids graduating high school going on to a four-year college," and are "producing eighth-grade leaders in the country in math gains, fourth-grade leaders in reading gains."

By Madeleine Doubek • August 25, 2016

UN's UNICEF
stated on July 6, 2016 in an article on Medium:

In South Sudan, "more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."

By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2016

Roberta Lange
stated on June 22, 2016 in a press release:

Says Donald Trump "literally has no plans to make higher education more affordable."

By Riley Snyder • June 28, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on June 15, 2016 in a senate hearing:

"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on June 3, 2016 in a speech:

The average student debt "coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is something like 28,000 dollars."

By Sarah Hauer • June 17, 2016

Vicki Martin
stated on May 12, 2016 in a presentation at a panel discussion:

Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools "go on to a two-or four-year college."

By Sarah Hauer • May 27, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 in an interview:

"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."

By Tom Kertscher • May 25, 2016

Bill McRaven
stated on January 21, 2016 in addressing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board:

University of Texas undergraduate student debt "is less than $21,000… probably one of the lowest debts across the nation."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 12, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 in a campaign speech:

"A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down."

By Chris Nichols • April 6, 2016

Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 in his education plan:

"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."

By Will Doran • March 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political advertisement that aired in Arizona.:

"Arizona schools rank 45th in the nation, dead last in funding per student."

By Anthony Cave • March 17, 2016

Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 in a House Appropriations Committee meeting:

"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."

By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016

Diane Douglas
stated on February 4, 2016 in remarks made during a state Senate Education Committee meeting.:

The Arizona State Board of Education’s "failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student."

By Anthony Cave • February 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."

By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016

Michael M. Crow
stated on January 26, 2016 in front of the state Senate Appropriations Committee:

Arizona is spending "less on a per-capita basis than every single state in this country in higher education."

By Anthony Cave • February 5, 2016

Martin O'Malley
stated on January 14, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on January 19, 2016 in a speech:

"According to the most recent report, Wisconsin’s high school graduation rates are also up again -- to third best in the country."

By Tom Kertscher • January 22, 2016

Chris Koster
stated on August 20, 2015 in comments at the Missouri State Fair as quoted by the Columbia Daily Tribune:

"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."

By Adam Aton • October 23, 2015

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