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Joe Manchin
stated on September 14, 2018 tweet:

Says Patrick Morrisey undertook "efforts to put educators in jail."

False

By Kristen Mohammadi • October 11, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on July 22, 2018 a candidates forum:

"Since Scott Walker has been our governor, we’ve gone from 50 percent state funding for the" University of Wisconsin System "to 15 percent."

False

By Tom Kertscher • August 6, 2018

JB Pritzker
stated on July 31, 2018 a video on Twitter:

"We have the most educated … workforce in the entire nation."

False

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 5, 2018

Viral image
stated on July 3, 2018 a meme shared on the Internet:

"39% of All California Students are illegals."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on May 13, 2018 a TV interview:

"By law, Democrats gave the superintendent of public instruction, back in 2009, the ability to take over failing schools … The current superintendent has failed to do that."

False

By D.L. Davis • July 5, 2018

Lupe Valdez
stated on May 8, 2018 a Facebook Live interview by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board:

"There are some counties in Texas where the first day of hunting, you have to shut down the schools because people are going to go hunting."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018

Stokes County school teacher
stated on May 10, 2018 a Facebook post:

"I am roughly being paid $53 a day to educate your child."

False

By Paul Specht • May 16, 2018

Mike Collier
stated on March 18, 2018 a tweet:

"The state is set to recapture an additional $500 million in Robin Hood payments from taxpayers and not one penny of it will go to public education in Texas."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 23, 2018

Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 29, 2018 on a campaign website:

The default rate for college students has grown from 40 percent 10 years ago to about 50 percent today, and "perhaps as many as 800,000 young Ohioans are facing default on their student loans."

False

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2018

Chris Kennedy
stated on February 9, 2018 an interview with the Southern Illinoisan editorial board:

"Zero percent of kids in Cairo are college-ready."

False

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • March 1, 2018

Andrew White
stated on January 11, 2018 a public interview with Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune:

"Fifty percent of our new" Texas "teachers don’t have college degrees."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 17, 2018

Jenna Fischer
stated on December 23, 2017 a tweet:

After enactment of the Republican tax bill, "school teachers can no longer deduct the cost of their classroom supplies on their taxes."

False

By Louis Jacobson • December 27, 2017

Roger Falk
stated on November 3, 2017 an oped commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

Says the Austin school district "enjoys the highest per-student funding of all large Texas districts" even after forwarding tax revenue to the state.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 17, 2017

Delaine Eastin
stated on October 16, 2017 an interview on Capital Public Radio:

Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."

False

By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2017

Bruce Rauner
stated on July 22, 2017 a press release:

As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago’s broken teacher pension system.

False

By Matt Dietrich • August 1, 2017

Evan Smith
stated on July 10, 2017 as quoted in a story in The New Yorker:

"The last majority-Anglo high school class in Texas graduated in 2014."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017

Jesse Kremer
stated on May 11, 2017 a legislative hearing:

"The Earth is 6,000 years old, that’s a fact."

False

By Tom Kertscher • June 8, 2017

Mark Pocan
stated on May 24, 2017 a hearing:

In Wisconsin’s school voucher program, "two-thirds of the money" in the "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000."

False

By Tom Kertscher • May 31, 2017

Richard Corcoran
stated on May 12, 2017 a tweet:

It is a myth that Florida's education legislation was "negotiated in secret."

False

By Amy Sherman, Kristen M. Clark • May 17, 2017

Volusia County Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2017 in an email:

"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "

False

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2017

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