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Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes
stated on January 9, 2012 a press release
Says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of "unprecedented fiscal challenges."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 21, 2012
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on January 12, 2012 a town hall-style meeting
"One generation ago we led the world in college graduation. We're 16th today."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 20, 2012
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on December 19, 2011 a speech.
Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund "puts no mandate on local government."
False
By Sean Gorman • January 20, 2012
David Sciarra
David Sciarra
stated on January 5, 2012 testimony before the state Assembly Budget Committee
Says over the last two years, New Jersey Schools Development Authority employees "have not started or completed one single school project, and I’m not talking about major school renovation. I’m talking about replacing boilers, roofs."
False
By Bill Wichert • January 16, 2012
Donald McEachin
Donald McEachin
stated on January 11, 2012 a speech.
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads."
True
By Sean Gorman • January 16, 2012
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on January 8, 2012 a newspaper commentary
"In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • January 15, 2012
Kriner Cash
Kriner Cash
stated on November 3, 2011 a presentation to Shelby County's schools merger Transition Planning Commission
The education tax burden for Shelby County -- and Tennessee -- is "one of the lowest in the country."
Mostly True
By Zack McMillin • January 13, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 11, 2012 an interview.
Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they "doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 11, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 his State of the State address
"My recommended budget includes $1 billion in new state funding for education."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 10, 2012
Ronald Rice
Ronald Rice
stated on January 5, 2012 a state senate budget committee hearing
Says in Newark "we’re paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 10, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 29, 2011 a radio interview
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • January 5, 2012
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on November 30, 2011 a television ad
Scott Walker’s school-aid cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found 47 kids in a classroom.  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 23, 2011
Creative Advocacy Network
Creative Advocacy Network
stated on December 1, 2011 a tweet
Says 77 percent "of Portland's students finish elementary school without taking even one art class."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 16, 2011
Julia Sass Rubin
Julia Sass Rubin
stated on December 3, 2011 an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show
"(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 15, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa
In New York City, "an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 18, 2011 a speech at Notre Dame's law school
"They say teachers only make on average in New Jersey 60,000 dollars a year. They only work 180 days."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 12, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 7, 2011 an Iowa TV ad.
Our "kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 9, 2011
Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown
stated on November 7, 2011 an interview
"Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 6, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 a speech
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2011
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